Bad Human: A Podcast about True Crime

Send a text It was 2018 and a young graduate from University of London with a bachelor’s degree in advertising and Marketing had decided to take a gap year and go on a backpacking tour to see the world and celebrate her 22nd birthday.   She first spent six weeks in South America and on November 20, 2018 she arrived in New Zealand to spend 2 weeks exploring the upper North Island.   On December 2nd...

Send a text Trigger warning....This case is one of the most gruesome and cruelest cases we have covered.... But our hope is keeping it in the public will help it one day be solved.  As with every case we treat these stories with respect and dignity because these are real peoples loved ones and real tragedy people have had to endure. On the evening of November 18, 1987, police went to the mobile ho...

Send a text In a shocking incident in 2000, Australian woman Katherine Knight brutally stabbed her partner, John Price, a staggering 37 times. What followed was even more horrifying as she proceeded to skin him, decapitate his head, and cook parts of his body.  This was just the breaking point in a history of violence, crime and horrific acts that no person should have to endure.  Follow us on Ins...

Send a text On Jan. 3rd,  1935, a man calling himself Roland T. Owen checked into the Hotel President in Kansas City, Missouri.  Carrying no luggage, he was described as being 20 to 35 years old, had brown hair, a scar on his scalp visible above the ear, and a case of cauliflower ear. He was nicely dressed in a black coat and received the room key for room 1046.   He specifically asked for an inte...

Send a text Sunday April 30th, 1989, the Congregation of Olive Branch Church in Lakeville Indiana were gathering for the 9:30 a.m., several of them noticed the absence of Pastor Bob, his wife and their 5 children. This was not like him as he was always there early to greet people as they entered the church. Growing uneasy they decided to check it out.....What they would find is a horrible murder a...

Send a text On the morning of February 13, 2009, in Escondido, CA, around approx. 7 am, 14-year-old Amber DuBois was seen walking to school. She wore a backpack that held a $200 check earmarked for her 4-H Club project, where she planned to purchase a lamb who she had already named Nannet.  Amber would never make it to school that day and it would be over a year before a break in her case would co...

Send a text Part two of Ed Kemper.  Be sure to listen to part one before listening. Here we pick up after Ed has committed his first murders, been released from Atascadero State Hospital , a maximum-security facility in San Luis Obispo County that houses mentally ill convicts and is about to embark on his reign of terror over Santa Cruz, CA. We cover his crimes, trial, and post conviction life.......

Send a text It was 1972 in Santa Cruz, California.  It was a time of love and peace…..The age of aquirius.  Many people described it as a fun and free time period to live…. However, this would all change In August of that year when group of hikers found a skull up in the Loma Prieta Mountain.  This would be the beginning of a horrific killing spree that would paralyze a city and steal the innocenc...

Send a text The following case  references crimes committed against children. The details provided within this episode are relevant to the case and necessary in explaining the case. Our intent is to spread awareness in hopes of one day seeing this case solved and justice served. As we always strive to do, we will treat the details and those impacted by the case with dignity and respect. Between 19...

Send a text We are back with a quick update to our last episode. Thanks to our listeners who keep us up to date with the latest details.  Accuracy is extremely important to us here at Bad Human as we always strive for credible details. Support the show

Send a text Make sure to listen to the first two Idaho Murder episode if you haven't already!  Some of this may be a repeat from the last episode because it was so long ago so apologies for the duplicative info.. but it’s a good refresher.  Here we pick up right after Brian Kohbergers arrest.  New evidence, eye witness accounts, grand jury indictments and all of the wild pre-trial happenings...

Send a text February 19th, 1993 started as any typical day in St. Joseph Florida, a small community near Dade City Miami.   Renee Odom dropped her 12 year old daughter Jennifer off at the bus stop and the two shared their usual bonding time in the car before Jennifer would catch the bus.  They discussed Math amongst other things and then Jennifer jumped on the bus to head off to school.  She sat i...

Send a text On May 10, 2020, 49 year old mom and wife Suzanne Morphew went for a bike ride nearby their home in Salida, CO.  It was mother’s day and she was looking to get a little fresh air and sunshine.   Their teenage daughters  were on a camping trip and were due to come home later that day to celebrate Mothers day.  When their mother didn’t respond to their happy mothers day text messages the...

Send a text On June 2, 2007 around 7pm, 18 year old Kelsey Smith decided to head to Target in Overland Park, KS to purchase a present for her boyfriend.  They were celebrating their 6-month anniversary and had planned to get together later that evening.    Kelsey had just graduated HS and was excited about her future.  She was beautiful, talented, loved marching band and was described as kind, lov...

Send a text It was 7 A.M. , June 10, 1912 when Mary Peckham became concerned after she noticed that the family who lived next door had not come out to do their morning chores.  The Moore family consisted of parents Josiah, Sarah and their four children: Herman Montgomery (11), Mary Katherine (10), Arthur Boyd (7), and Paul Vernon (5).   Mary knocked on the Moores' door. When nobody answered,...

Send a text Spalding, UK is a town of around 36,000 people with a low crime rate.  It seemed like a great place to raise a family.   There were cute markets and beautiful countryside.  It looks like a Bob Ross photograph.  It is a place that anyone would love to raise a family. This would also be the place where a mother and daughter would be brutally murdered in their home while the killers spent...

Send a text On October 5, 2018, 27-year-old Terrence Woods Jr was about to wrap up a day of shooting on the show Gold Rush while filming on set in the Penmen Mine area of Idaho.  At 5:31pm he would drop his radio, sprint down a steep cliff, disappear into the forest and rough terrain below never to be seen again.   To this day, his disappearance is just another unfortunate example of an unsolved c...

Send a text On the night of April 25, 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel   left a hotel in Myrtle Beach , South Carolina , where she had been staying with friends over spring break .  She walked to another hotel a short distance away, and from there, texted her boyfriend to say that she was heading back to her motel. It was the last time she was known to be alive.   What would follow is 13 years o...

Send a text We are back for part 2 of the Isreal Keyes case!! In this episode we cover more of the horrific and inhumane acts of this malicious killer, discuss his behaviors that made him one of the most prolific serial killers to date and his confessions and time in jail. Follow us on Instagram :  https://www.instagram.com/badhumanpod/ Email us with your case ideas:   Badhumanpodcast@gmail.com We...

Send a text February 1, 2012, began like any other day at work for 18-year-old Samantha Koenig.   Finishing up her shift at the Common Grounds coffee stand around 8pm in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, the young barista was approached by a man wearing a ski mask who ordered coffee.  She would end up being just one of the many victims of one of the most manipulative, calculating, and heartless serial k...

Send a text We are back for the second part of the BTK story. We pick up with victim number seven and take a deep dive into the f#$%ed up back story of this serial killer, and the monsterous crimes he committed in his own words. Our hearts and thoughts go out to all of BTK's victims, their families and those who are still impacted to this day by his chilling acts. Follow us on Instagram :  ht...

Send a text It was 1974 in Wichita, Kansas – kids would ride their bikes in the streets, no one locked the doors…..People felt safe, were living their best life....and had no idea a MONSTER was hiding right in plain sight.  BTK would become one of the most notoriously cold blooded and twisted serial killers to ever walk the earth. HUGE trigger warning for this episode as the acts of this shit stai...

Send a text At 9:45 p.m. on Dec. 27, 1986, Cara Knott called her family and said she was heading home to El Cajon from her boyfriend’s place in Escondido driving southbound on HWY 15.  When she didn’t return home from her boyfriend’s residence, her parents were immediately alerted.    Her body would later be located and the suspect would be someone no one ever saw coming....... F ollow us on Insta...

Send a text On September 22, 2006, 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart was h ouse and pet sitting for her aunt and uncle in Whispering cliffs, just a few miles away from her own residence in Pocatello, Idaho.  She had no idea that she was about to be victimized in a horrible event by two horrible human beings who thought they were going to be the next famous serial killer or relive the story line of th...

Send a text On November 8th, 2010 intruders would break into a home in Unionville, Markham, Ontario, in the Greater Toronto Area as part of a murder for hire plot......Jennifer Pan, the daughter of the two targeted victims,  would later be the prime suspect in this crime and her YEARS of lies would unravel.  Fake college transcripts, hiding a love affair, lying about having a job.......would all c...