Scams, Money, & Murder

Poison doesn't always come from a stranger. Sometimes it's stirred into your coffee by the person who claims to love you most. Sabrina Deana-Roga and Alexis Linkletter bring each other three terrifying poisoning stories from Reddit. A brother poisons his brother's girlfriend for years, a man grows suspicious that his mother put cyanide in his ramen, and a girlfriend slips Viagra into her boyfriend...

On the Saturday before Thanksgiving in 1988, nine-year-old Michaela "Kayla" Garecht and her best friend rode their scooters two blocks to a Hayward, California corner store for candy and soda. Minutes later, in a busy parking lot in broad daylight, a stranger grabbed Kayla, forced her into a car, and drove off. What began as an ordinary morning became one of California's most haunting disappearanc...

In 2021, an anonymous forum post floated a theory that sounded absurd: the internet effectively died around 2016, and most of what we now see online, the posts, comments, arguments, and trends, is generated by bots and AI designed to manipulate what we think, buy, and believe. People laughed, until the evidence started piling up. Bots surpassed human traffic online for the first time in 2024, more...

A writer who predicted the Titanic disaster. A child who dreamed of her own death. And a president haunted by a vision of his own funeral. Heidi Wong uncovers the chilling true stories from the Titanic premonition to the Aberfan disaster and Abraham Lincoln’s prophetic dream that prove Final Destination might not be fiction after all. For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts:...

You've heard of H.H. Holmes. The murder castle, the gas chambers, two hundred victims lured from the World's Fair. Almost none of it is true. In the first part of our 3-part series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring strips away the legend and tells you what's actually in the record: The medical school scams, the two wives who never knew about each other, the building that hid things behind its walls, and...

In February 2000, Katherine Knight committed one of the most disturbing murders in Australian history...but the path to that night began decades earlier in a rural New South Wales household defined by violence, neglect, and sexual abuse. As Katherine moved through a series of volatile relationships, her fear of abandonment grew into a pattern of escalating intimidation and brutality that left a tr...

In 2008, 24-year-old Knoxville server Carrie Daugherty was ambushed and killed outside her Tennessee home, a sudden act of violence that shattered the people who loved her. Suspicion soon turned to Micah Johnson, the ex-boyfriend of Carrie's best friend, and the search for him escalated into a dramatic standoff on Knoxville's Henley Street Bridge. In Part 1 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Cart...

Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new podcast out now called WHAT THE FACT hosted by Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy. It’s produced by the same team that brings you Scams, Money, & Murder. Connor and co-host Carter Roy pul...

On September 17, 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey went to the Puyallup Fair in Washington with her best friend and never came home. The two girls missed the 8:40 PM bus back to Spanaway and split up to find their own way. The last anyone saw of Misty, she was standing alone near a bus stop after dark, told there were no more buses on her route that night. Then she walked off, and vanished. Leading t...

John Barnett spent 32 years at Boeing before going public with alarming claims about faulty oxygen masks, substandard parts, and a corporate culture that punished anyone who dared to speak up. In March 2024, in the middle of giving deposition testimony against the company, he was found dead in a hotel parking lot from a gunshot wound. Less than two months later, Joshua Dean, a 45-year-old quality...

A vanished child returns as a stranger. A beauty blogger’s twin becomes her killer. A man’s life is stolen by his lookalike. Heidi Wong exposes the real doppelgänger cases that turned myth into murder, and inspired Jordan Peele’s Us, where the scariest enemy is your own reflection. For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226 If you’re new here, don’t...

Charles Manson spent more than half his life locked up, read at a seventh-grade level, and failed at the only thing he ever actually wanted: a record deal with a music label. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Manson murders, Katie Ring traces the childhood that built him, the runaway kids he assembled into a family, and the nine people whose lives were about to run into his. Follow Ame...

For nearly two decades, Jean-Claude Romand convinced his family, friends, and colleagues that he was a respected World Health Organization researcher...while spending his days in cafes and rest stops, swindling loved ones out of their savings. And in January 1993, as the walls of his fabricated life finally closed in, Romand turned to violence rather than face exposure. This episode traces the chi...

In January 1931, a mysterious phone call was left for insurance agent William Herbert Wallace at his chess club in Liverpool, England, summoning him to a meeting the following night at an address that, it turned out, did not exist. While Wallace wandered the city searching for the phantom street, his wife Julia was beaten to death in the front parlor of their modest home. Almost immediately, suspi...

What happens when the people closest to you are hiding something you never saw coming? Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana Roga break down three unbelievable relationship secrets straight from Reddit. A boyfriend fakes a cancer diagnosis just to get closer to the woman he's falling for. A wife has to break the news that her husband's brand new car is gone, but the truth behind the crash is far mor...

On October 24, 1961, 31-year-old Joan Risch spent an ordinary morning at home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She took her daughter to the dentist, booked a follow-up appointment, and later walked her to a neighbor's house, promising she'd be right back. She never returned. When someone finally stepped inside her home, they found the kitchen smeared with blood, the telephone torn from the wall, and Joa...

In the final years of Imperial Russia, a mysterious peasant mystic named Grigori Rasputin rose to extraordinary influence over the royal Romanov family. Trusted by the Empress for his apparent ability to ease her son's illness, Rasputin became a figure of endless rumor, accused of everything from manipulation and debauchery to holding secret sway over the crumbling empire. His dramatic murder in 1...

The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. A sadistic aristocrat with a torture chamber. And a crazed killer with an axe. Heidi uncovers the real stories of Marie Laveau, Madame LaLaurie, and the Axeman of New Orleans: the real people that inspired American Horror Story: Coven. For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226 If you’re new here, don’t forget to foll...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard had chromosomal defects, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, leukemia, and the mind of a seven-year-old…according to her mother Dee Dee. In the first part of our 3-part series on Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Katie Ring goes back to the beginning, to the Louisiana bayou, the mother who learned that being sick got you everything you wanted, and the little girl who spent 23 years believing ev...

In 1995, Mark Winger appeared to have it all: a stable career, an adoring wife named Donnah, and a newly adopted daughter in Springfield, Illinois. But beneath the surface, Mark was carrying on a secret affair and harboring a chilling plan to rid himself of his marriage without losing everything he'd built. When an unsettling encounter with a shuttle driver gave Mark the opening he needed, he set...

In December 1996, French television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier traveled alone to her remote holiday home on the windswept Mizen Head peninsula in County Cork, Ireland, a place she loved for its isolation and beauty. Two days before Christmas, her battered body was found on the lane outside her cottage, beaten so severely that the quiet farming community around Schull could scarcely compreh...

What happens when Reddit users confess their darkest secrets? Alexis Linkletter joins Sabrina Deana-Roga to break down three unbelievable true crime confessions straight from Reddit. A woman discovers her boyfriend and his coworkers plotting to kill her. A father reveals his teenage son murdered his ex-girlfriend. A married man admits his choices may have led to his affair partner's death. Sabrina...

On September 13, 1992, 27-year-old Su Taraskiewicz left her overnight shift at Boston's Logan Airport to grab sandwiches for her crew and never made it home. The next day, her body was found in the trunk of her own car. As a ramp supervisor and one of the few women on a mostly male crew at Northwest Airlines, Su had spent months enduring a workplace that turned against her. There were taunts, sabo...

Since it opened in 1995, Denver International Airport has been the subject of some of the most enduring conspiracy theories in America. Built years behind schedule and wildly over budget, the airport is famous for its unsettling apocalyptic murals, a towering demonic horse statue with glowing red eyes, cryptic dedication plaques, and a sprawling network of underground tunnels. To believers, these...

A Swedish legend of dancing with the devil. A medieval plague that made people dance to death. And a modern town haunted by a phantom attacker. Heidi Wong uncovers how real cases of hysteria, ritual, and belief inspired Midsommar and prove that madness spreads faster than any curse. For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226 If you’re new here, don’t...