Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

After a strange man fired a shotgun blast into the window of Jennifer Holliday's vehicle, she was ripped from her seat and abducted. The other passenger, her younger cousin Ana, was left in the car to die from her wounds. Fortunately, Jennifer was able to manipulate her captor and escape. Meg walks you through this case, relates it to her own kidnapping, and gives several tips on how to survive if...

The small, rural town of St. Joseph, Minnesota was rocked when a man jumped out of the woods and abducted Jacob Wetterling. This case drew national attention as communities all over the country asked, "Could this happen here?". Coni takes you through this horrifying case that proves monsters lurk everywhere -- sometimes in small towns, and sometimes for years before cases can be connected. Learn m...

At a time when gay men were disappearing from Indianapolis bars, Herb Baumeister was running a successful business and purchasing a beautiful farm. But weird Herb was hiding secrets darker than anyone could imagine. Meg walks you through the horrors the occurred at Fox Hollow Farm and why it’s said to be the most haunted place in Indiana.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

When the Jaegers' took a month long trip from Michigan out West, they knew that it would be a trip that they would never forget. Their trip ended in horror when their 7 year old daughter was kidnapped from their camping site. Who would take Susie? Could a string of random be murders really be the work of one monster? Coni takes you through the case that ruined camping for her. Learn more about you...

As kids, we heard the scary story about a couple parked on lover’s lane that narrowly misses their demise. The case of Texarkana’s Phantom Slayer is where that old legend started. Only it’s not a legend. Meg takes you through the real attacks and murders of several couples parked at lover’s lane in 1940’s Texarkana and how they caught the person responsible.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

The murder of Jessica Keen rocked the Columbus, OH community in 1991. It was not only the brutality of her murder that stunned investigators, but it was also the fact they had no idea who would commit such a horrific crime against this All-American teenager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before Jack the Ripper, there was Mary Ann Cotton. One could describe her as "The Mother of all Serial Killers". Meg takes you through the absolutely insane story of Mary Ann Cotton, a woman whose atrocities you have to hear to believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From 2004-2008 the city of Kičevo was terrorized by their first serial killer. Dubbed The Kičevo Monster, terror spread through the small mountain town in Macedonia. Who could be targeting these women? Coni takes you through this case that has all of the characteristics of a Hollywood Thriller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Playboy is an iconic brand but are the women that work for them doomed? Meg takes you through some of the most horrific cases that affected Playboy bunnies and women that have worked for the magazine. Were these women cursed or are these troubling stories just a string of sick coincidences?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arlis Perry was brutally murdered in the church on Stanford Campus in Palo Alto California in October 1974. In a time of "Satanic Panic", coming off the heels of the Manson Family Murders, did Arlis cross paths with a satanic cult? Could her murderer have been one of many infamous serial killers who were active during the time of her death? Coni takes you through the case that rocked the Stanford...

It's a listener request this week! Holly Bobo was a beautiful 20 year old who had her entire life ahead of her when she was approached by a man in her driveway and lead into the woods, never to be seen alive again. Who would want to hurt Holly? And better question, why would anyone want to hurt her? Meg takes us through this heartbreaking case and the events that followed. Learn more about your ad...

Andy Castillo was arrested in January 2020 on charges of cyber stalking realtors. When over 100 realtors reported that they had been receiving harassing text messages along with pictures of their children that had been taken from social media. What investigators didn't expect was a DNA sample that would unlock the mystery of a pair of 17 year old cold cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

School shootings are a very real part of our existence in the US and they leave the communities they occur in reeling. Meg takes you through a shooting in Pennsylvania, detailing what happened when Charles Roberts entered the West Nickel Mines Amish School, murdered 5 students, wounded 5 others, then turned his gun on himself.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UK was rocked in 1993 when two year old James Bulger was lured away from his mother while shopping at the Strand Shopping Center. It wasn't just the brutality of the crime that shocked the country, it was the fact that the suspects in the case were ten years old. Coni takes you through one of the the most difficult cases we have covered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...

In every Psychology 101 textbook, the case of Kitty Genovese is referenced when discussing the bystander effect– the idea that people won’t help a victim if other people are around. Meg takes you through the murder of Kitty and the several other atrocities that Winston Moseley committed during his crime spree in the 1960’s.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coni takes you through a tale that we've seen too many times -- a man ruined by neglectful parents and a broken system. A serial killer with genuine remorse and a desire to remained incarcerated? It almost sounds too crazy to be true. David Edward Maust is an anomaly in the serial killer world who had Coni feeling something she usually doesn't feel when researching serial killers in addition to he...

Meg takes your through a classic love triangle gone wrong. Did Edythe Klumpp murder the estranged wife of her boyfriend, Bill Bergen? Did Louise Bergen point a gun at Edythe? Why is Bill the worst? Answers to all of these questions in this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

40.3 million victims: that's the number of human trafficking victims worldwide in 2021. On the heels of the most trafficked event in the United States, the Super Bowl, Coni covers the difficult topic of human trafficking by reading survivors stories in their own words.   Source Material: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/human-trafficking-nena/554846/ https://www.ijm.org/stories...

After a life of crime, Ahmad Suradji decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a dukun, another name for an Indonesian shaman. But over the course of a decade more than 80 women disappear from the small village where Ahmad was practicing black magic... What did the sorcerer do?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate started as love crossed teenage lovers and ended as two of the most notorious murderers in Nebraska's history. Coni takes you through the 11 murders that rocked the Midwest state. Was Caril an innocent bystander who stuck by Charles's side out of fear for her life? Or was she as trigger happy as he was?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

On January 13th, 2021 at 1:35 am, Lisa Montgomery, of federal death row, was the first woman in 67 years put to death. Meg takes you through the chilling details of the crime that landed her there; the murder and fetal abduction of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and asks the question, did she deserve to die for her crime? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1994 Joe Metheny started his journey as a scorned lover looking for an ex-girlfriend who took his son in the middle of the night and left without a trace. He went looking for revenge, but soon discovered the love for murder. It's not that he murdered that is the most brutal part of his story. It's how he decided to dispose of the evidence. Put your food down, and try to stomach Coni telling the...

The fall of 2002 proved that it’s not just the swamps of Louisiana that has violent predators lurking. Sometimes, the predators are the people we love and trust the most. 12-year-old Courtney LeBlanc was not only the victim of a brutal and senseless killing, but was the victim of a broken system. Courtney’s tragic death is devastating in itself but its how the crime was even able happen that will...

As we bring this decade to a close, Coni and Meg (and a special guest) take you through the biggest crime headlines of each year for this decade. From mass shootings to murderous parents, we're ending this year the only way we know how; bringing you the most gruesome true crime we could find. Crimes that will have you remembering exactly where you were when the news broke. Here's to a new decade,...

After her boyfriend returns home from a weekend of visiting family, he finds that his girlfriend's phone, bag, and coat are all inside of their new apartment, but she is nowhere to be found. Smart, successful, 25-year-old Joanna Yeates disappeared on December 17, 2010 without a trace. Was it a stranger? The boyfriend? Someone she knew? Meg ruins your Christmas holida with this twisty whodunit tale...