Deliver Us Some Evil

Are you ready to hike the Appalachian Trail? No? Well neither are we! The DUSE flips the switch on the Wayback Machine for a look at the Roaring 20's and a wealthy town rocked by the gruesome murder of a beautiful young woman. Mamie Thurman was a modest housewife, church volunteer, library treasurer, and... frequented speakeasies, brothels, and the bedrooms of the rich and powerful. I mean why...

The DUSE is back with another installment of Fifty States of Wholesome Family Entertain-- I mean, Murder! What do you call a young man who marries a cheerleader, has a successful career, and a bright future? A lucky guy, right? Wrong! He ends up on the business end of a murder plot, but please don't call him a victim. That word belongs to his murderer! In fact, we aren't even sure how the...

Fifty States of Murder bundles up and heads north for the tale of a man who couldn't help himself when it came to brutally attacking women -- and then picking up the phone to confess it all. It was the early 1980's and Paul Michael Stephani earned the nickname the Weepy-Voiced Killer as he claimed the lives of three victims and then made hysterical calls to the police. Was he truly remorse...

Fifty States of Murder wraps up Black History Month with the shocking story of the youngest serial killer in American history: Craig Chandler Price. At the ripe old age of thirteen he went from petty crime, stalking, and theft to the brutal murder of a neighbor. Without a single clue left behind, the case went cold. Two years later he struck again, butchering another neighborhood family. When the...

It's double trouble as Fifty States of Murder takes on Black History Month with the 2002 Beltway Sniper duo of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. Not quite father and son, the two drove cross country in 2002 and ended the lives of seventeen victims, culminating in a national panic in October as the D.C. metro area witnessed one random attack after another. Even Eli has a story to tell, sh...

It's a buy-one-get-two-free triple threat this week as Eli and Mel nail St. Patrick's Day, Black History Month, and Fifty States of Murder all at once with the harrowing tale of a mid-80's murder spree that covered six states and left eight people dead. Alton Coleman and Debra Brown committed their brutal crimes during the same era as Canada's infamous power couple Paul Bernardo an...

Get ready for a double-whammy Black History Month Fifty States of Murder DUSE-style extravaganza as Eli and Mel connect the dots to reveal the truth about one of the oldest and most violent cults in American history: the Black Hebrew Israelites. The first congregations were founded over a hundred years ago but the words of their prophets, Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, are at the heart...

The DUSE might be fashionably late to the Valentine's Day party, but what better way to celebrate than with a box of gas-station chocolates and your favorite podcasters! Eli and Mel get romantic with the story of Stephen Grant, a real-life Mr. Mom who had it all and still said enough is enough when he called the cops to report his wife missing on Valentine's Day, 2007. Not even a tailored...

The natural born podcasters are back with another installment of Fifty States of Murder! The setting is the Midwestern powder keg of 1950's America when a teenaged boy with nothing to lose joins forces with his questionably-aged girlfriend and lights the fuse on a killing spree that leaves eleven people dead and a community terrorized by its own greatest fear: juvenile delinquency. Charles Ray...

Fifty States of Murder puts the pedal to the metal and takes on one of the biggest cases of serial murder in American history: BTK, aka Dennis Rader. His brutal crimes went unsolved for decades as he taunted the police through cryptic letters, dropped out of sight for years at a time, and crafted a wholesome public persona. Dark humor abounds as Eli and Mel try to reconcile the antics of a man who...

What do mashed potatoes have to do with murder? Tune in and find out as Eli and Mel travel back in time to 1981 to investigate the family values of John Mathis, a mid-western pig farmer who may or may not have used a .22 caliber to re-enter the singles market. As a bonus for our loyal listeners Eli shares his top-secret recipe for garlic pudding. YUM! So if you're about to ride a horse into a...

The wait is over! The update is finally here! Eli and Mel dive straight into the deep end as they revisit one of the first cases the DUSE covered way back in 2022: the quadruple murder of four college students in Moscow, Idaho. Sure, Eli's theory about a local cult having a hand in the brutal slayings was wrong -- very wrong -- but the truth is even harder to believe. From the bizarre story of...

It's a very merry murdery Deliver Us Some Evil Christmas special! Eli and Mel slide down the chimney to share the gruesome story of one family who just didn't have what it took to get through the holidays in one piece. It might not have been a dark and stormy night back in 2013 but Christmas morning revealed something much worse than a stocking full of coal to the windy city when eighteen-...

The DUSE rises to #33 on the top Fifty States of Murder chart with a damning expose on the fraud, hypocrisy, dirty dealings, and general scumbaggery just beneath the surface of the country music industry. It all came as a surprise to Kevin Hughes when he took a bullet for daring to demand honesty instead of a bribe. It was 1989 and even the cops couldn't fathom corruption so deep it could cost...

What do you get when a rich woman goes missing, there's no shortage of suspects, but almost no evidence? The latest episode of Fifty States of Murder, of course! Eli and Mel document the unsolved disappearance of Jacqueline Levitz, a wealthy social climber who went through three husbands before vanishing in late 1995. Was she bumped off by jealous relatives? Or maybe it was one of the working...

The DUSE waxes philosophical in our latest episode of Fifty States of Murder as Eli and Mel paint a picture of innocence lost in post-WWII America and the influence of pivotal thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and of course Friedrich Nietzsche. What does existentialism have to do with murder? We're glad you asked! It took disenchanted jazz musician Melvin Rees to...

Get ready for another trip to the wild wild west as The DUSE books a room for you at the Murder Inn! The hostess is one heckuva cook so long as you like your steak dinner with a wink and a nod and a generous helping of arsenic. Then again, Polly Bartlett didn't target just any old traveler. She wanted a very special kind of man: the kind with too much cash, too few friends, and an eye for the...

The West Coast has seen its share of murderers but how many of them flagged down a cop and said hey, I'm thinking of becoming a murderer? TWICE! And how many cops, parole officers, and shrinks who encountered this guy just passed him off onto someone else? If you guessed all of them, you're right! Eli and Mel found no evidence of an actual clown car but they're sure there must have bee...

Fifty States of Murder rolls on -- right across that overgrown lawn your neighbors are always complaining about. That's right folks, it's time for another pit-stop on our cross-country tour: the story of William Devin Howell, a man who earned the nickname The Sick Ripper in a year-long rampage of violence and death. Eli and Mel are here to give you the facts, mock the fiction, and warn you...

Happy Halloween from your friendly neighborhood true-crime pumpkin heads at Deliver Us Some Evil! And what better way to celebrate the spooky season in style than putting a new spin on an old story: the infamous Salem Witch Trials! If you think necks were stretched over religious hysteria, food poisoning, or something out of a Women's Studies class... well, YOU'RE WRONG. It was a land grab...

What's the difference between a podcast host who researches serial killers as a hobby and a budding psychopath who researches serial killers as a hobby? Motivation? Destiny? Being in the right place at the wrong time? Seriously, we're asking you. We don't know. What we do know is that Eli and Mel have been doing the DUSE for three years! The only casualty has been a few marbles here an...

The DUSE turns the turntables on this week's episode of Fifty States of Murder as they destroy the reputation of the one state in the union that never fails to put the capital T in capital punishment. It wasn't mercy that opened the prison door for convicted murderer Kenneth McDuff, but paperwork shuffling bean-counters who wanted to flood the streets with criminals. Can you guess what was...

Buckle up for another marathon episode of Fifty States of Murder as The DUSE takes a page from the dictionary under the word... GROSS! The case of Robert Berdella is the poster child for the ugly underbelly of the 1980's from the drug-fueled gay sub-culture that definitely wasn't its own worst enemy to the trash "journalism" of Geraldo Rivera that was determined to link every pos...

Fifty States of Murder rolls on as Eli stumps Mel with trivia questions (seriously, aren't Warsaw and Notre Dame in Europe??) before getting too close for comfort with one of America's most notorious murderers: Gertrude Baniszewski. This chain-smoking mother of seven could have done a lot of things in the summer of 1965 -- hosted a block party, learned to crochet, started a book club for s...

Want to get away with murder? Make sure no one can spell your name! That's the secret of New Jersey's famous freelance hit man, Richard Kuklinski, known as the Ice Man, the Devil, or that really big guy over there with the bad temper and the baseball bat. The DUSE leaves no murder behind as Eli and Mel go the distance with a marathon episode that covers everything from Kuklinski's nigh...