Murder, My Dude

Take a look, it's in a book: Murder, My Dude! We're taking a look at the Stephen King book so controversial, that the legendary author removed it from store shelves. Rage was originally published under a pseudonym, and it inspired a series of horrendous crimes (mostly in Kentucky, for some reason). This week, we explore those stories! BUT FIRST! This Week in Murder explores updates to some...

Murder, My Dude returns to Episode 168! (or is it 169?) Dorothy Stratten was not only one of the top playmates for Playboy Magazine in 1980, but she was also seemingly poised for crossover superstardom in Hollywood, where she drew the attention of one director in particular… By the end of the year, she was brutally murdered before her 21st birthday. In this episode, we explore her story. BUT FIRST...

Murder, My Dude returns for the 167th (and possibly final?) time! In the Winter of 2013, LAPD officers and police in surrounding areas found themselves the targets of a rampaging killer hell-bent on getting even for what he thought was a broken system that had victimized him and cost him his livelihood. Christopher Dorner was a vigilante with a twisted set of targets who targeted the very same pol...

It’s September, and back to school season is in full swing on Murder, My Dude! While that usually means homework and recess for most people, for us, it means school bus accidents and one of the most sinister killer’s we’ve ever covered. Andrei Chikatilo’s life was a Stalinist horror story, with an upbringing dominated by birth defects, intentional famines, and World War II. These surroundings help...

This week’s feature is a rough one, given the age of one of the victims and how preventable his death was. 20 years after his tragic killing, we look at both the murder of one-year-old Zachary Turner as well as the killing of his father, Andrew Bagby. We also explore the tireless efforts of Andrew’s friends and family to make sure that their deaths resulted in reform to help prevent others from su...

It may be August, but Murder, My Dude is thinking cool thoughts! If you’ve watched your share of late night HBO in the 90s or 2000s, you may already be a little familiar with the story of Richard “The Iceman” Kulkinski, the self-professed hitman who seemed to love killing more than anything (with the possible exception of talking about killing). How many of The Iceman’s tales of terror were real a...

No, it’s not a shameless effort to court Red Hot Chili Peppers fans, this week, we venture North to explore a Canadian true crime case that left the nation fearing for (or just straight up fearing) their youth in the mid/late 1990s. What happened to Reena Virk was every parent’s worst nightmare, and the ensuing legal wrangling is a case study in both the flaws of criminal justice and the power of...

It’s a day full of fun and fireworks, and to celebrate the 4th of July, we’re releasing this week’s episode a few days early!  And in our very special Independence Day episode, we’re going to look at not one, not two, but THREE stories of historical American Murders: the first known murderer in the colonies that would become the United States, an infamous massacre that helped kickstart the revolut...

Yeah, Father’s Day was almost a week ago, but in the spirit of, “better late than never,” Murder, My Dude is going to celebrate it the only way we know how: the worst way humanly possible! When most people think of killing one’s parents, the name that springs into mind immediately is Menendez. Even by their own testimony, Lyle and Erik Menendez shot their parents 15 times with a pair of 12-gauge s...

It’s another of our tentpole episodes of the year this week: our 4th rendition of Pride, My Dude! And in this episode, we travel to our CONFIRMED SECOND BIGGEST MARKET!!! In the glorious, wonderful, please recommend the podcast to a friend United Kingdom, where we’ll explore the notorious Grindr (and Fitlad and Sleepyboy) Killer, who exploited questionable policework and killed four victims in the...

This week, we celebrate the birth of one of our own: Jackson Welles! We do this by discussing The Shining, the film released on the exact day of his birth, and by looking into the case of legendary murderous robbers on the lam Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow. The story of the outlaw duo brought down in a hail of gunfire is so ubiquitous, it seems like folklore at this point. In this episode, Jack...

In our latest episode, Jackson and B.P. (or is it Maximum Jackson-um and Pope Barnabas?) pay tribute to Florence Nightingale on what would’ve been her 203rd birthday, if only people lived that long.  And they do it in a way only Murder, My Dude can: by highlighting the very worst of the profession that she’s synonymous with. Charles Cullen is one of the most prolific “angel of death” killers in th...

In our latest episode, Murder, My Dude returns to the land of the rising sun to take a look at a pair of killings that drew international attention to a controversial custom. Carita Ridgway and Lucie Blackman were both hostesses, workers at Tokyo nightclubs who were tasked with being extra-attentive to parts of the club’s clientele - generally older, affluent businessmen. Carita and Lucie came to...

This week's episode finally delves deep in to a thrilling, cutthroat world that we've never explored before: the insurance industry. On a serious note, the brutal death of terminally ill Betsy Faria showed how depraved human beings can truly be. The terminally ill wife and mother of two was stabbed over 50 times, including once through an eye, and was left with a knife sticking out of her...

The weather is warming up, and schools are letting out. It’s time once again for SPRING BREAK!!! But the fun and frivolity all too often turns deadly, and perhaps never more horrifically than in the case of Mark Kilroy, a Texas Longhorn who went to the Gulf Coast to party like it was 1989, and he never returned. The story of his demise has to be heard to be believed. BUT FIRST!!! This Week In Murd...

For the fifth time, Murder, My Dude turns its eyes toward the Emerald Isle to celebrate our oldest special: Murder O’Dude. And it’s a wild one, filled with bad accents and butchered pronunciations! Oh yeah, and a case. The death of Mary Gough Whelan was caused by an accidental fall down the stairs according to her husband, Colin. Investigators soon suspected something more sinister, but the wily w...

And this week, we do something completely different! It’s an extra-special Murder, My Dude with more of a freeform conversation and a bit of a rest for our usual segments. Instead, we’re going to take a look at our favorite murder-themed TV shows and movies. And, unlike always, we DON’T play a game of Who Died The Worst!

The weeks immediately following the attacks on September 11, 2001 were wrought with paranoia and a sense that something else bad was going to happen imminently. Those fears were made real on a smaller scale when it soon emerged that members of the media and the United States Senate were mailed letters containing spores carrying the deadly anthrax bacteria. Though terrorism was initially feared, su...

Stay away from the woods (and wooded areas) - this week we’re taking a look at the Green River Killer! Gary Ridgway currently holds the second-largest confirmed body count of any serial killer in American history. He was able to evade law enforcement for decades by hiding in plain sight (and because DNA testing was in its infancy). This week, we look into his story! BUT FIRST! This Week In Murder...

Be careful who you pick up on the side of the road. In our 6th Season Finale, we cover a case straight out of your Netflix watch list and explore the case of Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker! Was the charismatic vagabond a folk hero, a cold-blooded murderer, or something in between? We explore his case in this smash, smash, su-MASH of an episode! BUT FIRST - This Week In Murder explores a cold...

Murder, My Dude returns with an episode that’ll make you think twice before you open your medicine cabinet! Chicago was terrorized in the early 1980s with a wave on inexplicable cyanide poisonings that ultimately caused nationwide hysteria and a mistrust of consumer products that lasts to a certain degree to this day. In our latest episode, we explore the mysterious killings. BUT FIRST! This Week...

This week, Murder, My Dude heads to the Big Apple to ring in the new year. We’re not talking about the ultra-glitzy modern-day Times Square, but instead the more rough-and-tumble Times Square of the 1970s and 80s, where “street performers” trafficked in something far more salacious than knockoff Marvel and Sesame Street costumes. This was the New York of Richard Cottingham. The depths of Cottingha...

For a large part of the late 2000s/early 10s, Casey Anthony was quite possibly the most hated person in America. Suspected in the death of her three-year-old daughter Caylee, images of Anthony partying it up while her child was missing drew intense anger across the country. Anger that was joined by disbelief when Anthony was found not guilty of her daughter’s murder. New evidence and the breaking...

This week, Jackson and B.P. discuss the case of a femme fatale who has been an international fugitive for over a half-century. Sharon “La Pistolera” Kinne always wanted to grow beyond her humble Midwestern origins, and she had a knack for either getting what she wanted or punishing those who kept it from her. Time after time, she evaded the law, and even when it caught up with her, she seemed to h...

This week, it's a double shot of true crime comedy goodness that takes us to the Treasure State! Montana may not be a gigantic population hub, but Big Sky Country has definitely seen its share of twisted true crime tales. In this episode, we take a look at two of them: the tragic 1973 death of Susie Jaeger, which led to a case that created a milestone in criminal profiling. Then, we look at the re...