Middle-Aged and Mediocre

Hey ya'll, how are the End Times treating you? We almost had World War 3 start up. Australia burnt to the ground. A pandemic has swept through the world. And now, the U.S. government officially recognized UFOs, only to then get pissed off when no one paid attention and decide to release MURDER HORNETS! The simulation is glitching out, and we don't know how long we all have left until it gets reboo...

A charismatic man with a superiority complex, Roch Thériault led a religious cult that believed he was God's prophet and that he would save them from Doomsday.  Thériault was a sadistic and psychotic leader who took his followers - mostly women - deeper and deeper into their own personal Hell.  We would like to warn you that this episode contains details of child abuse - physical, sexual, and emot...

Ken Rex McElroy was a Grade-A asshole, and in a town with a population of less than 500 people, that particular kind of assholery will only last so long.  The biggest mystery surrounding this murder case is why didn't the murder occur sooner.  Pull up a seat and listen to the story that influenced the film "Road House," as Joel and Cash explore their morality (Spoiler Alert... It's not a very deep...

Not gonna lie... this story isn't our most interesting or engaging one we have done. However, this episode is still entertaining and funny and hopefully worth your time! We talk about the craziness out in the world, Joe Exotic, and eating dry rice. See? Hilarious stuff! Check it out! And once again, thanks goes out to Jerks! for letting us use their song "Blabbermouth" as our intro! Go buy their n...

First of all, huge thanks to Jerks! for letting us use their song "Blabbermouth" in our intro for this week's episode! Get their new EP, "First Day", at jerkstheband.bandcamp.com now!  This week we tackle the Keddie Cabin Murders.  "On the morning of April 12, 1981, Sheila Sharp returned to her home at Cabin 28 in the Keddie Resorts in California from the next-door neighbor’s house. What the 14-ye...

Christmas Eve, 1945. The Sodder family home goes up in flames and burns to the ground in under an hour. George and Jennie Sodder are able to get out of the house with 4 of their children but 5 children are left trapped in the house. Or were they? The children seemingly disappeared in the fire. No trace of them left behind. Five children just gone. So what happened? Cash and Joel put on their detec...

When we left off in Part 1 of the story of the Jetpack Murder, Brad Barker and Larry Stanley, once bitter enemies, had decided to work together alongside Brad's buddy, Joe Wright.  The three men had big plans to build a new and improved rocketbelt and become rich & famous off it.  Things didn't quite go as planned... Join us for Part 2 of this story where an absurd obsession with a jetpack named "...

It's the year of our Lord, 2020, and we still don't have our own goddamn personal jetpacks! For most of us, we just count that amongst all the other lies we were told when we were children and we move on with our day. For three friends, however, an obsession with jetpacks would lead to betrayal, violence, and murder.  This is the story of the Jetpack Murder.

Stop me if you've heard this one before; Two cannibals walk into a chat room... Armin Meiwes was looking for true love. Bernd Brandes was looking for a way out. Together they would create a love story for the ages. Seriously, though, this story is tragic, thought-provoking, and gruesome. Making jokes is just an easy way to digest it all. Check out our newest episode to hear the story of one of the...

It's the 1930s and dismembered bodies are stacking up in a pile of limbs and torsos in Cleveland, Ohio.  An ambitious, young detective known as Eliot Ness is in charge and the pressure is mounting to find and capture the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run".  Desperation sets in and Ness fumbles the investigation.  Can he recover and put an end to Cleveland's terror or does he pull a real Browns-like ma...

Note: This is our first two-parter and the issues with Cash's mic are fixed for the second part. We don't know what's up with the weird vibration/echo it has on it during this episode. The Cleveland Torso Murderer (also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run) was an unidentified serial killer who was active in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1930s. The killings were characterized by the dismemberment of...

Local legend has it that if you're traveling on 22 Mine Road in Logan County, West Virginia you may see the ghost of Mamie Thurman. Whether you will see spirits or not is up for debate but in exploring the the story surrounding Mamie's murder, you will undoubtedly see the the ugly ghosts of our society's prejudices and injustices that still haunt our hearts and minds. While this story is about Mam...

In 1943, four boys were poaching in Hagley Wood when one decided to climb up an elm tree that had a hollowed-out trunk. What he'd find inside the tree trunk would kick off the start of an investigation that included theories ranging from a very bad case of the Wrong Place, Wrong Times to a possible black magic execution.  The murder presents an eerie question that is still painted on walls to this...

In 1922... EVERYONE WAS MURDERED IN THE 20s!... a 15-year old girl and her 23-year old boyfriend... because again, the 20s were just a shitshow.... stumbled onto the dead bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and his "secret" lover Eleanor Mills. The investigation that followed was a total mess from the start, and the murders became front page news until Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped and publicat...

In 1932, Western Australia was under an attack that no nation should ever have to face. The horrors faced during these dark times would resonate throughout the world as the entire planet could do nothing but look on in terror and send the biggest thoughts and prayers you ever did see.... It was the Great Emu War and no one would ever be the same... *stares off into the distance*

In 1931, the small community of Quiet Dell, just a short distance away from Clarksburg, WV, was the epicenter of one of the first sensational crime stories that made waves all across the country. Bodies were found in a garage that was set up more like a bunker, but whose bodies were found and who put them there? Find out on this episode of Middle-Aged and Mediocre as we talk about the Quiet Dell M...

Join us for the first episode of "Middle-Aged and Mediocre" as Cash tells Joel the story of the Hinterkaifeck Murders that took place in Germany on March 31, 1922. It's a real whodunit and whodunit might have been a ghost or a demon! Check out the podcast and see if we can solve this gruesome 97-year old unsolved murder case!