Grimly Podcast

When six year old Brooke Sutton survived the attack that killed her grandmother, Judy Johnson, she told police the man looked like her Uncle Clarence. But “looked like” became “it was him,” and Clarence Elkins was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. This episode covers the wrongful conviction of Clarence Elkins, the years-long fight by his wife Melinda to prove his innocence, and the DNA...

In 1992, Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier were involved in a car crash on a rural South Dakota road. One passenger survived, but Arnold and Ruby vanished from the scene before help arrived. Months later, their bodies were found in a ditch near the crash site a place investigators, the family of Arnold and Ruby, volunteers had already searched. Their deaths were eventually ruled accidental, but...

Vicki Morgan’s life was tangled in wealth, politics, secrets, and scandal long before her brutal murder in 1983. Known publicly as the longtime mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale, a wealthy businessman and close friend of President Ronald Reagan, Vicki became the center of a story filled with lawsuits, rumors, and powerful men. But when she was found dead inside her Los Angeles home, her murder raise...

This week, we’re taking a haunted road trip through California’s eerie eastern edge. From the brutal silence and strange legends of Death Valley, to the cursed ghost town of Bodie, through the Sierra Nevada home of Penelope the cryptid, and finally to Lake Tahoe, where folklore gives way to a much darker real history. Buckle up for strange caves, curses, cryptids, ghost towns, and the stories stil...

When Gary McCullough disappeared in 1999, the truth about what happened to him seemed to vanish with him. Years later, Lena Chapin came forward with a shocking story about his death, only to disappear herself before she could testify. This week, we’re covering the tangled and haunting disappearances of Gary McCullough and Lena Chapin, a case filled with family secrets, buried truth, and unanswered...

In part two of the Betty Broderick case, we see events and the consequences of the divorce war as it reaches its breaking point. After years of bitter court battles, custody fights, restraining orders, obscene voicemails, and escalating rage, Betty Broderick walks into the San Diego home of her ex-husband, Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick. By morning, both Dan and Linda are...

efore Betty Broderick became one of the most polarizing women in true crime, she was a young Catholic wife, a mother of four, and the woman who helped support Dan Broderick through medical school, law school, and the building of a wildly successful career. From the outside, the Brodericks had everything: money, status, a beautiful family, and the kind of San Diego life people dream about. But behi...

On a quiet summer morning in July 2007, Barbara Bolick set out on a familiar trail in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana with a friend. It was a place she knew well, a short, easy hike with nothing unusual about it. But in the span of just a few moments, Barbara disappeared no sound, no struggle, no trace left behind. Despite extensive searches, helicopters, and tracking dogs, there has never bee...

In this weeks special episode, we’re stepping inside Overbrook Asylum with Brandon O. from Terrorific. Overbrook was a place that once held thousands and left behind countless unanswered questions about the care that was supposed to happen but instead was met with tragedies that we will never hear. From its overcrowded past to the chilling events of 1917 and the ghost stories that followed, this i...

In our final episode of this series. We cover the final years of the group that would come to be known as The Heavens Gate Cult. We cover additional member recruitment after the death of Bonnie Nettles. Along with the shift in ideology that eventually leads to the groups final major act in 1997 after the arrival of the Hale-Bopp comet. But with the conclusion of Heavens Gate we still wondering, wh...

In part two of our three part series of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult, we dive deeper into the psychology of the coercion and control that became more and more apparent under Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite's leadership. We also talk about how the group changed from their original doctrine and beliefs to one that has the catastrophic end in 1997.  Be sure to rate and review and as always,...

Before the mass suicide that shocked the world, there was a story of two people, a growing following, and a belief system that promised something beyond Earth. This week, we dive into Part 1 of the Heaven’s Gate story breaking down the early lives of Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, how they met, what their teachings were and how their teachings began to pull people in to the cult that woul...

In 1997, a man calling himself Mel Waters phoned into Coast to Coast AM with a story that sounded almost impossible. On a piece of land near Ellensburg, Washington, he claimed there was a hole with no measurable bottom. A place where anything thrown inside simply vanished… and where the deeper the story went, the stranger it became. Over time, Mel described bizarre phenomena, mysterious government...

A newlywed marriage in Florida hides a deadly secret when police uncover a murder-for-hire plot targeting Michael Dippolito. What follows is a dramatic sting operation, hidden cameras, and one of the most bizarre true-crime sagas of the modern era. In this episode, we unravel the twists, trials, and shocking moments behind a case that left people wondering how far someone might go to get away with...

When a quiet Arkansas community learned that a 67-year-old man had been arrested on dozens of charges related to the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl, many believed justice was already in motion. But months later, that same man was out on bond. Then, one night in October 2024, everything changed. After discovering his daughter missing from her bedroom, Arkansas father Aaron Spencer began sea...

In September 1952, a fireball streaked across the evening sky over the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia. What began as a group of boys chasing what they thought was a fallen meteor quickly turned into one of the strangest encounters in American history. Waiting on the hillside was a towering figure… floating, silent, and unlike anything they had ever seen. The witnesses ran home terrified, r...

On the night of April 15th, 1988, 17 year old Randy Leach borrowed the family car and headed out to a party with friends in the small Kansas town of Linwood. But sometime between the party and the drive home, he vanished. In the decades since, investigators, family, friends and volunteer searches have never been able to explain how a boy, a car, and small town could hold so many secrets that still...

After a fire broke out in 1834 at 1140 Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Rescuers forced their way into the attic, and uncovered a scene so disturbing it shocked even a city already accustomed to brutality. The discovery turned Madame LaLaurie from respected socialite into one of the most infamous figures in American history, and the house on Royal Street into a legend...

In the final episode of our coverage of DeOrr Kunz Jr . disappearance , the focus turns to what still doesn’t add up. As private investigators take a closer look at the case, growing suspicion centers on the people who were with DeOrr the day he vanished. We examine the involvement of PIs, the mounting questions surrounding DeOrr's parents Vernal and Jessica, and the leading theories of what may h...

In July 2015, two-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. vanished from a remote campground in Idaho’s Lemhi Range. He was last seen playing near his family’s campsite, surrounded by adults who believed he was never out of sight for more than a moment. Within minutes, he was gone. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, we lay out the foundation of the case: the family trip to the wilderness, the timeline of DeOrr’s...

In 1975 in Snowflake Arizona one of the most infamous UFO abduction stories happened, or did it? The Travis Walton abduction still sits at that gray area between belief and doubt. Polygraphs, hypnosis sessions, skeptical analyses, and tabloid deals have all been analyzed and scrutinized, but none have overturned the basic testimony of the seven men who were there the night of the abduction. Despit...

It is episode 90 and we are back and as unhinged and chatty as ever! Today Meg is doing her annual tradition of kicking off the new year with an episode with a perplexing and frankly frustrating missing persons case. Daniel Robinson was 24 when he disappeared from a geologist worksite in the Arizona desert. For his family, the search has lasted years through recovery efforts, lackluster police inv...

In this episode, we dive into the darker roots of Christmas folklore from around the world. Where winter isn’t just cozy, it’s crawling with creatures, warnings, and ancient traditions meant to keep people in line through the longest nights of the year. From Iceland’s terrifying Gryla and the towering Yule Cat to Wales’ eerie Mari Lwyd and the restless household spirits like the Tomte, we explore...

Before Christmas was all lights and cheer, Victorians gathered by firelight to tell ghost stories. This episode dives into the legend of the Mistletoe Bride and the haunting of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, two of the most famous Victorian Christmas tales still whispered about today.

On Christmas Day 1929, the quiet tobacco fields of Germanton, North Carolina, became the backdrop for one of the most haunting family tragedies in American history. What began as a day of celebration ended in unthinkable violence when Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of his children before taking his own life. Nearly a century later, the question of why still lingers like a cold winter fog...