Hot Mess Murder Club

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This week on Hot Mess Murder Club, Kat and Holly are dragging you back to the 1970s to scream about one of the most rage-inducing failures of the justice system we've ever covered: Harvey Carignan. Better known as The Want-Ad Killer—or Harvey the Hammer if you’re nasty—this predator should have been locked in a cage permanently after a brutal attack in 1950. Instead, thanks to a botched interrogat...

Welcome back to the mess. This week, we are dissecting a relationship dynamic so profoundly cursed it requires a biohazard suit just to look at. We are mapping out the entirely chronological, disastrous timeline of Ryan Poston and Shayna Hubers. Ryan was a sharp, successful Kentucky attorney desperately trying to pull the ripcord on an exhausting, on-again-off-again situationship. His grand escape...

Welcome back, Murder Nerds! This week on Hot Mess Murder Club, Kat and Holly are tackling a man who took "mommy issues" to a wildly unhinged, deeply horrific level. Meet Edmund Kemper: a six-foot-nine, 300-pound genius with an IQ that could launch a rocket and the emotional stability of a wet napkin. We are diving into the absolute dumpster fire that was Big Ed's life. We trace his terrifying evol...

Welcome back to Hot Mess Murder Club! Last week, we gave you all the diabolical build-up and zero climax. This week, Kat and Holly are finally opening the doors to 1426 F Street, picking up the shovels, and digging up the yard. In the final chapter of this two-part series, the chameleon's trap snaps shut. We are diving deep into the actual pipeline of prey and the brutal reality of her body count....

Welcome back to Hot Mess Murder Club! This week, Kat and Holly are bypassing the pleasantries and diving straight into the deeply toxic, unhinged life of Dorothea Puente. You might know her as the infamous "Death House Landlady" who treated a Sacramento Victorian duplex like her own personal, privately-funded cemetery, but how exactly do you build a cardigan-wearing apex predator? In Part One of t...

Cancel your dinner reservations, permanently padlock your chest freezer, and politely decline your neighbor's barbecue invitation for the rest of your natural life. This week on Hot Mess Murder Club, we are serving up the chronological nightmare that is the Nathaniel Bar-Jonah case—and trust us, your appetite will not survive. We are taking you all the way back to the beginning of this absolute du...

Welcome to another hour-long descent into madness here at the Hot Mess Murder Club (hmmc). This week, we are diving deep into the absolute circus that is the 2018 murder of Amy Mullis. Get ready for a chronological, factual, and completely chaotic ride through rural Iowa—where the hogs are loud, the marriages are messy, and the farm tools are unexpectedly lethal. We’re taking you back to the begin...

Lock your doors and prepare to have your blood pressure absolutely skyrocket. This week on Hot Mess Murder Club, we’re heading to lockdown-era London to discuss a case that is equal parts heartbreaking, infuriating, and profoundly stupid. In June 2020, sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were just trying to find a little bit of joy during a pandemic, celebrating Bibaa's 46th birthday in Fryent...

Double-check your deadbolts, lock your car doors, and for the love of God, stop picking up hitchhikers. Welcome back to the Hot Mess Murder Club. This week, we are taking a heavily caffeinated, hour-long road trip down the darkest, trashiest highways of 1980s Florida to unpack the absolute chaos that is the Aileen Wuornos case. We’re going strictly chronological on this one, laying out the factual...

​What happens when 1920s school security operates entirely on the honor system, and a 19-year-old edgelord decides to pull off the most audacious crime in L.A. history? You get an absolute, unhinged nightmare. ​This week, Kat and Holly are dragging you back to Los Angeles in 1927 to unpack a case that completely broke the West Coast. Enter William Edward Hickman—an absolute bottom-feeder who uniro...

💀 The Killer Fed The Cows?? Lock your doors and check your attic, because this week HMMC is tackling the ultimate "the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-house" true crime classic. We’re going back to 1922 Bavaria to the Hinterkaifeck farm, where a killer didn't just break in—they moved in. Imagine finding strange footprints leading from the woods to your door, but none leading back out. Imagine hear...

Grab your favorite "emotional support" beverage and buckle up, because today the Hot Mess Murder Club is diving into the absolute fever dream that is the University of Idaho 4 case . We’re heading to Moscow, Idaho—a town so quiet that a stolen bicycle used to be front-page news—until November 13, 2022, when things went from "charming college town" to "low-budget horror movie" real quick. The "Wait...

This week, we’re taking a deep, sixty-minute dive into the absolute dumpster fire that was Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander. From their meeting at a literal multi-level marketing convention (because of course) to the 2008 shower scene that was less Psycho and more "I'm a pathological liar with a disposable camera," we’re tracing every chronological step of this psychological train wreck. Jodi didn'...

Buckle up, besties, because this week on Hot Mess Murder Club , we’re heading to Italy to meet the woman who took "protective boy mom" to a level that makes helicopter parents look like chill hippies. Meet Leonarda Cianciulli, the "Soap Maker of Correggio," a woman who decided that the best way to keep her son out of World War II was—naturally—human sacrifice. Because why pray for a draft defermen...

Buckle up, Bitches, because this week the Hot Mess Murder Club is heading to 1930s Sydney, Australia. Where the nightlife was vibrant, the gangsters were messy, and the sharks were apparently serving as unpaid forensic investigators. We’re diving deep into the Shark Arm Case—a story that starts with a captive tiger shark at the Coogee Aquarium feeling a bit nauseous and ends with a severed limb, a...

This week on Hot Mess Murder Club , Kat and Holly take you back to 2012 — when online dating was thriving, boundaries were “clearly communicated,” and absolutely no one thought a casual situationship could spiral into a multi-year psychological nightmare. Dave Kroupa just wanted something light. No commitment. No drama. No moving in. You know. The famous last words. Enter two women. One intense, o...

We are back in Belle Haven, where the hedges are trimmed, the lawyers are expensive, and the truth has been sitting in a gated community for twenty years. Part Two is where Kat and Holly peel back the layers that Part One only hinted at. The secret inquiry. The Élan School testimony that detonated everything. Classmates describing late-night “confessions” that were shrugged off for years until sud...

Halloween 1975. Belle Haven, Connecticut. A gated waterfront community so polished it practically smells like generational wealth and suppressed scandal. It’s Mischief Night, and teenagers are running around egging houses, flirting, and pretending they’re not growing up too fast. By sunrise, 15-year-old Martha Moxley is dead in her own backyard. In Part One, Kat and Holly take you inside the illus...

Abby Choi didn’t disappear quietly. She was taken in the middle of the day, during a routine school pickup, by people who knew her schedule, depended on her money, and had been living comfortably inside her life for years. This wasn’t impulsive. It wasn’t emotional. It was organized. In this episode of Hot Mess Murder Club, Kat and Holly break down the murder of Abby Choi, a 28-year-old Hong Kong...

People love to pretend monsters come out of nowhere. Catherine Knight proves that’s a lie we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night. This wasn’t a snap. This was years of control, rage, and violence that everyone saw coming and no one stopped. Predictable doesn’t mean preventable, apparently. In this episode, Kat and Holly tear into Catherine Knight’s long, ugly buildup. The violent childhood. Th...

John Meehan didn’t just lie. He curated entire personalities, weaponized sympathy, and slid through people’s lives like a professional parasite with a stethoscope he absolutely did not earn. In this episode of Hot Mess Murder Club , Kat and Holly tear into the true story behind the man better known as the inspiration for Dirty John. The charm. The cons. The nonstop manipulation. And the trail of w...

This is a listener requested episode, and it is a WILD one. In the '90s, Vancouver sold itself as progressive, scenic, and safe. Meanwhile, women were disappearing at a rate that should have set the city on fire. This episode dives headfirst into the Robert Pickton pig farm murders and the long stretch of time where everyone who should’ve been paying attention very aggressively did not. We’re talk...

Kat and Holly dig into how Colby Vinson was pushed out of his own child’s life through escalating control, false narratives, and a custody fight that stopped being about a child and became about winning. The girls get fired up about the effects gatekeeping has on children, and how it can ruin lives. They break down how ordinary parenting was reframed as a threat, how access became leverage, and ho...