Mental Illness Theatre

It's Decemeber, so it's time to pull out a top shelf criminal to talk about. And really, who is worse than Jeffrey Dahmer? This guy is notorious for the horrors that were found in his Wisconsin apartment in 1991, but if you like body parts, Dahmer had all the body parts you could ever want. In this episode, we cover Dahmer's early life, his family, his awkwardness at school and his overall aloofne...

And we're back for part two of the Mark Essex story. This one gets wild fast, as we pick up with Essex headed to the Howard Johnson Hotel in downtown New Orleans, and it's here where Essex would take the vast majority of his victims. We've got carnage in the hotel, a seemingly brain dead police chief, a shootout with a helicopter and a bunch of dead and wounded police officers. Mentalillnesstheatr...

We're back to our bread and butter this week, as we're covering a little known American spree killer who left a trail of dead in New Orleans in the the early 70's. Mark Essex was an African American man who was not impressed with the racism he encoutnered in his day to day life, and eventually, he dealt with it by choosing violence. In part 1, we'll cover Essex's early life (which wasn't bad), his...

This week, we're back to cover the second part of the Battle of Passchendaele. And this is the rough part. Last week we covered the setup for the battle, where it happened, why it happened, and why it was a bad idea. WE made it to the first day of the battle, and that's when the rains started. This episode is pretty much wall to wall descriptions of the battle from the men who had to fight it, so...

We're a few days late, but in honour of Remembrance Day and Veterans Day, we're covering a terrible battle. From the First World War, so get ready for a massacre. This is part one of the story of the Battle of Passchendaele, where every awful part of the war came together to make one of the worst battles possible. Because of on top of barbed wire, machine guns, trenches, artillery and massed attac...

We're back to cover the final part of the Robert Garrow story, and this is where it gets weird. We get lawyers caught in a bind, animal-human love triangles, convoluted stories about how the crimes happened, faked paralysis, a jail escape, and a hell of a lot more. And at the end, we added a few outtakes of the animal politics that go on while we record, and Gina's total disgust in Mark's lack of...

This week, we're covering a spree killer from the 1970's whose crimes have been nearly forgotten by the general public, although they are well remembered where they happened. That's in the Adirondack region of upstate New York, a very rural area covered in heavy wilderness, and this is where Robert Garrow went on the run after killing four people. After a manhunt that was the states largest at the...

We're back to finish off the Joseph Albert Guay story, and this part is as ridiculous as part one. In this episode, Guay and his posse build a working bomb, manage to smuggle it on to a plane, and subseuently murder Guay's wife, Rita Morel, along with another 22 people for good measure. Don't kill your spouse, but seriosuly, if you must, don't kill dozens of people in the process of murdering your...

This week, we're back in Canada to cover one of the countries strangest and most egregious crimes. In the late 1940's, Joseph Albert Guay was a married man with a new child who seemed poised to take advantage of the economic boom in post war Canada. But instead, Guay got himiself a teenage girlfriend and decided that he no longer wanted his wife around. Which never turns into a good story. Especia...

We're back for part two of the Katherine Knight story, and so far, we have a total of 40 red flags were co-host Gina would have bolted from Knight. Unfortunately for John Price, he didn't see quite enough red flags to put him completey off Knight, and it would cost him his life. And his head. Then his skin. And it just keeps going like that, because this is one of the worst murders on record. Ment...

This week, we're going to Australia on request from one of our patrons and covering one of the worst one off murders around. Many factors play into making this one of the most over the top murders ever, and so today, we're starting part one of the murder of John Price by Katherine Knight. Australia goes hard, and no one was harder than Knight. PS - Stick around until the end to hear the story of m...

This was originally going to be TinyWorst for our Patreon, but due to scheduling, migraines and the relentless march of time, it's now become a full episode. This week, we're talking about three toilet disasters that range from medievel nobles drowning in poop, war subs being forced to the surface due to a malfunctioning toilet, and a plane brought down because of a fire in the bathroom. It's a bi...

We apologize for the echo in this episode, we recently switched recording devices and will fix it for the next episode It's a fun-ish one this week as we move away from the terrible cannibalism we've been talking about for about a month and cover a story that doesn't have a single murder in it. But what it does have is a guy deciding he's had enough, stealing a cold war era tank, and going for a j...

It seems like we have a little bit a theme lately, because just after finishing the infamous Albert Fish case, we're now covering an entire family of cannibals. This is the story of Sawney Bean and his cannibal clan, and they terrorized a region of southwestern Scotland in the medieval era. By the time the family was brought to justice, it's said they had killed in the neighborhood of 1000 people....

We're back for the final part of the Albert Fish story, and we're basically jumping straight into the Grae Budd letter. From there, it's on to the capture, trial and execution of Fish, as well as his legacy. That legacy being that Fish lived up to being the boogeyman. Mentalillnesstheatre@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/952876465260434/?ref=share https://www.patreon.com/Mentalillnessthea...

Get ready, it's part two of Albert Fish, and this one is nasty from post to post. We've got a lot of Albert in his own words, even more poop talk, the infamous abduction of Grace Budd, and we find out what Albert thinks happens in Hollywood. You'll never look at peanut butter the same again. Mentalillnesstheatre@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/952876465260434/?ref=share https://www.patre...

Well, we finally made it to the legend, one of the OG 20th century criminals, and omg, his story holds up... almost too much. And this was the easiest part. Get ready, we finally jumped down the Albert Fish rabbit hole, and it's full of needles. Mentalillnesstheatre@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/952876465260434/?ref=share https://www.patreon.com/Mentalillnesstheater https://www.instagr...

This week, we're into a classic story from history that inspired one of the 20th century's most well known fictional monsters, and to be honest, the historical story holds up. We've got child hostages, back stabbing, double dealing, religious wars and a hell of a lot of impaling. That's right, we're covering Vlad III of Wallachia, AKA Vlad Dracula, AKA Vlad the Imapaler. We also apologize for the...

This week, we're back to finish off the Dennis Nilsen story, and it doesn't get any less weird. We have more body disposals, a little bit of mirror play, a killing that seemed as if it was done by routine, and a lot of sewer talk. The takeaway from this one is; don't flush the flesh of your victims down the toilet. Mentalillnesstheatre@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/952876465260434/?ref...

This week, we're back for part two of the Dennis Nilsen story, and this one gets rough, and weird, and just Nilsen-y. This time, we talk about Nilsen's ever evolving mirror masturbation game, his quest to find someone to quell his loneliness, and how he starts to use dead bodies to fill that void. So yeah, a little weird to say the least. Mentalillnesstheatre@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/gro...

It's our 100th episode, and we're coming in with a banger. This is part one of a three part series on a guy we have brought up many, many times before. He's the epitome of a product killer, he Weekend at Bernie's the bodies, he's a talker, and he's one of the UK's worst and most notorious serial killers. That's right, it's Dennis Nilsen! Mentalillnesstheatre@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/grou...

This week, we're back to what we feel is our wheelhouse; a virtually unknown American serial killer whose story is incredibly terrible. Joseph Daniel Miller was a gross little man who murdered five women and attempted a further two murders in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania between 1985 to 1992. Miller also had an armed police standoff before he became a teenager, so there's that, and everything got wors...

This week, we're going back a bit in time to cover a historical true crime that still holds up. It takes a lot to be the worst example of a deplorable group of people, but that's exactly what Delphine LaLaurie managed to achieve. You see, she stood out as the worst slave owner in a society that saw the institution as norma. And when Delphine left a number of her slaves to die in a house fire in 18...

Finally, our most cursed episode to date is finished! Tech/ medical issues delayed this one, but we got there. In this episode, we get to Randy Kraft's time in Portland, Oregon, the deterioration of his relationship with Jeff Seelig, his incredibly lucky capture, and why you probably wouldn't have wanted to carpool with him. https://www.facebook.com/groups/952876465260434/?ref=share https://www.pa...

This week, we're back for the third instalment of the Randy Kraft story, and to be honest, this is another rough episode. This time, we'll talk about Kraft's victims, why we'd take a Robert Pickton over a Randy Kraft any day, bad liquor, eyeball torture, terrible psychics, and why you should never trust a computer programmer. As always, it's a lot. https://www.facebook.com/groups/952876465260434/?...