Murder Homes

What’s it like to be obsessed by true crime? Matt interviews a young woman who says tales of murder have changed her life…for the better. A deeper look at why we’re fascinated by the darkest stories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spade Cooley was the King of Western Swing, but when his career dried up, he turned his fury on his petrified wife. Matt heads to the basement with his band Mr. Pescado, plugs in his amp, and says goodbye with a song. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s October 19th, 1970, and a young intruder named John Linley Frazier is sitting on a sofa inside a spectacular stone and glass mansion on a hill in Soquel, California, patiently waiting for a wealthy family of five to return home, so he can kill them one by one, and then burn their dream home to the ground.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Would you buy a home where a double murder had occurred? How about a home where another murder occurs, in the same bedroom, seven years later? The unbelievable story of the horrors that continue to haunt the quaint brick colonial in Silver Spring, Maryland. It may look like any other home on that quiet street, but a river of blood runs through it.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

Take a step into a Murder Home that only exists in the future. It’s 2048 on Magnolia Drive, and a man named Millar is about to find out what happens when you leave your custom-designed comfort zone and become the person you fear most.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Roy Den Hollander, a fanatical men’s right’s activist, was dying of cancer and only had a few months to live. He decided he would make the most of it by hunting down his two arch enemies in California and New Jersey. Dressed as a fake Fedex deliveryman, he embarked on a murder spree that would become even more bloody than he had planned.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The murder of Reverend Canon Wancura was only the second homicide to occur in the history of Shelter Island in over 300 years. But was his home invasion a random and brutal attack by a day laborer working near his mansion, or an act of revenge on a priest who was leading a double life?   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Levittown, Pennsylvania, is just an ordinary suburban town, and January 30th, 2024, seemed like a perfectly ordinary winter day, which made it all the more shocking when a 32-year-old man named Justin Mohn uploaded a video to YouTube that began with him lifting his father’s head out of a stockpot, and ended with him calling for armed revolution from his tidy bedroom.   See omnystudio.com/listener...

Jim Gordon was one of rock & roll’s most legendary drummers, but when he began hearing voices the high-paying gigs started drying up fast. It was his mother’s voice in particular that nagged him incessantly, all day long. Slowly driven crazy, he packed a clawhammer and knife in a canvas bag and on June 8th, 1983, committed one of the most shocking crimes in music history.   See omnystudio.com/...

In a modest ranch home on Pine Valley Road, a young woman named Melinda Snyder has packed up almost all of her belongings in boxes and is getting ready to move out, looking forward to a bright future. The only thing standing in the way is a man who has become slowly obsessed with her: a real estate agent named Ed Cronell. He has the key to the home’s lockbox and on the night of January 23rd, 1990,...

Season 3 of Murder Homes starts July 24th. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt should be tanning on the beach, but instead he's locked inside working hard on the next season of Murder Homes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special bonus content - Matt speaks with Veronica, a high-school student, who works with the Crime Scene clean-up crew. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recently, a man named Rex Heuermann was arrested for the deaths of four young women found along a sandy stretch of Ocean Parkway, on Gilgo Beach, Long Island. The case had been unsolved for over sixteen years until Heuermann’s cell phone records were obtained by police, together with a description of the vehicle he had used. DNA expert Dan Krane explains how detectives were able to match a few pie...

Matt talks with Dex Desjardins about The Satanic Temple, Black Masses, Destruction Rituals, goat worshippers, and the satanic cult he really fears. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special bonus content - Matt talks to Ben Terry, the inmate from our Oak Street episode, on how to survive a week in jail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When a married couple sets off for Grenada on their yacht Simplicity , the last thing they expect is the terror that awaits them in paradise.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An Insider reveals the secrets of the hit documentary for the first time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No one in Canton, Georgia will ever forget the “Goat Man,” and what ended his life on May 16th, 1991. Some call it a freak accident, some call it justice, and some call it murder, still angry that the killer walked free. On four legs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben Terry, incarcerated at Jefferson County Correctional center, takes us back in time to July 4th, 2006, when he finally decides to confront the man who has been bullying him for years in the small town of Clinton. The story of a homicide in a small town and one prisoner’s attempt to come to terms with the past, and a bleak, unforgiving future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On a chilly night in September, 1958, an intruder breaks into a two-bedroom home and fatally stabs the mother and father living there, leaving three children alive. Days later, the homicides will cause mass hysteria across the country as attention focuses on a suspect that no one could have imagined – their eight-year-old son. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt and his producer JB travel to a location they cannot disclose to meet a crime scene cleanup crew. A shocking triple homicide has occurred and the murderer is in custody, but a gruesome crime scene still has to be dealt with. An up-close, visceral look at what happens behind-the-scenes at a real murder home. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The "Hinterkaifeck Murders" are one of Germany's most infamous crimes and one of its most puzzling cold cases. In the winter of 1922, the Gruber family's nerves were shattered by signs that someone had been watching them. Footsteps in the snow. Strange noises in the attic. A broken lock on a barn door. On March 31st, 1922, all six are found viciously slaughtered with an ax and a hunt begins for a...

In the summer of 1975, a maniacal preacher named Vernon LeGrande hits upon a brilliant scheme to use fake nuns to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in the New York City subways. His forty disciples operate out of a three-story brownstone in Crown Heights and a summer camp called "LeGrande Acres" in the bucolic Catskills, where the bodies of his followers are still being discovered to this d...

It’s just before Thanksgiving in the upper middle class suburb of Rock Hill, South Carolina, and a young man named Jimmy Robertson is standing in the den of his parents’ home, contemplating the unthinkable. After squandering all the opportunities he’s been given in life, and freshly kicked out of an elite college, he has a diabolical plan for those who love him the most.  See omnystudio.com/listen...