Murder, My Dude

An early Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Murder, My Dude to all of you! And in honor of the day AFTER Turkey Day, this week we look at several killings related to the holiday shopping season - specifically Black Friday and the newer tradition of stores doing big sales on Thanksgiving itself. The killings themselves run the gamut: road rage, Good Samaritans paying the ultimate price, crimes of...

Murder, My Dude returns to Fridays (well, every other Friday), with a new story just in time for the upcoming cold months. When you think cold weather in the US, you think Alaska, and no killer terrorized our 49th state more than Robert Hansen, better known as Bob The Baker or The Butcher Baker (it’s not known if he ever made candlesticks). After moving from Iowa to Anchorage, Alaska in the 1960s,...

It all comes full-circle on this week’s episode. Going back three years, all the way back to Episode One, we reviewed the 2018 Halloween Revival, and this week, we review the sequel: Halloween Kills. But that’s not all! We cover fake murder of all kinds: Chucky on USA/SyFy, You and Squid Game on Netflix, and Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. BUT FIRST: a breaking news update on a hot case, a (p...

116 episodes in, and we have a new (albeit temporary) segment! The world can't seem to get enough of the Brian Laundrie manhunt, so we'll be taking a regular look at that each and every week. And that's in addition to This Week In Murder! This episode, we explore the possibility of parole for the assassin of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and a Brazilian butt lift gone bad. From there, i...

Murder My Dude, returns with your 115th dose of True Crime Comedy Goodness (patent pending)! And as a true crime podcast that dabbles in current events, we’d be derelict in our duties if we didn’t cover the tragic killing of Gabby Petito. Just hours before we recorded this episode, law enforcement confirmed that a body found in a Wyoming park the weekend before was indeed Petito’s, and we discuss...

Jackson and B.P. return to familiar true crime territory, and the case they’re covering this week is one of the most famous of this century (so far). Meredith Kercher was a young English exchange student experiencing a year abroad in Italy, her whole life ahead of her, when it was all gone in the blink of an eye. When her life was taken from her all-too-soon, the attention of the media and local p...

We’re back with our biggest episode yet! And yes, that episode length is due to many, many of the off-topic detours our loyal listeners know and love! But there’s also plenty of true (and false) crime goodness! On the true front, This Week In Murder explores a COVID-19 related prison release that quickly led to tragedy and a crime of passion allegedly killing a prominent executive. Then, it’s on t...

NOTE: This episode has a companion episode of our sister show, Podantic, designed to be listened to in tandem. You can find that episode here: https://anchor.fm/podantic/episodes/Episode-12---EC-Comics-e1570hi The Brooklyn Thrill Killers is one of the many salacious names given to a group of four teenage boys in the aforementioned New York City borough who found themselves at the center of a crime...

Murder, My Dude returns with a case tailor-made for the upcoming dog days of Summer! When two women, both wearing floral bikinis, washed up on the coasts of Thailand in the mid-1970s, some called their murders the Bikini Killings. After he was apprehended, the man who took their lives - and possibly the lives of as many as two dozen others - was dubbed by some as The Bikini Killer. However, thanks...

Just in time for a gripping heat wave, Murder, My Dude goes back deep in the heart of Texas! Well, not really. This is more East Texas. Almost Louisiana, actually. But - spoiler alert - the heat does play a part in cracking the mind-bending case at the center of our show this week. Texas oilman Greg Fleniken traveled for work constantly, and he loved his hotel rooms to be like, as his wife would d...

This week, Murder My Dude takes a look at a series of stories of things that may not be what they seem. A revelation on a second date and a mom washing her son’s jeans are more than what they seem on the latest edition of This Week In Murder! In our featured story, we look at the infamous tale of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a loving mother and her sickly child on the surface, but things are...

In this episode, Murder, My Dude spends Memorial Day Weekend deep in the heart of Texas! Candy Montgomery seemingly had it all: a beautiful house, a devoted husband, and two lovely children. Still, she wanted more. More specifically, she wanted Gore - family friend Allan Gore (not the former Vice President). Their meticulously negotiated love affair wound up leading to one of the more horrific cri...

Murder, My Dude returns to the City of Angels to cover the notorious Hillside Strangler case. In the late 1970s, over a dozen women were found dead, many of them sexually assaulted, in the hills surrounding Los Angeles. This week, we explore the case and its unexpected conclusion. BUT FIRST: A NEW SEGMENT! Jackson Welles debuts Crime Seen, a review segment featuring reviews of classic crime films....

This week, Murder, My Dude takes a little detour to the Old West to explore the life, times, and death of one of the greatest confidence men in American history: Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith II. Born into privilege to a wealthy family in (barely) pre-Civil War Georgia, the fall of the Confederacy and Reconstruction altered this son of a lawyer and grandson of a plantation owner’s destiny, but...

Murder, My Dude Returns to provide you with more of the true crime comedy goodness you know and love! And it starts with This Week In Murder, where we break down another tragic mass shooting, this one involving a former NFL player, as well as a dismembered body found in a ditch in Brazil. And then it’s on to the main attraction. While not as infamous as Ted Bundy, Paul John Knowles, also known as...

This week, we’re shipping up to Boston! Long before the term “serial killer” even existed, a dreaded mystery man left all of Boston terrified from 1962 to 1964. Many, many women were terrified to be home alone due to the knowledge that The Boston Strangler was on the loose. As many know, Albert DeSalvo eventually confessed to the crimes, but was he actually The Boston Strangler, and was he the ONL...

St. Paddy’s Day is in the rear view, but the third-annual Murder O’Dude is here, better late than never! And, if it helps, the show was recorded on March 17th! And this episode explores the lore and likely truth behind Dorcas “Darkey” Kelly, a woman in 18th Century Dublin whose brutal execution has been attributed at times to her being a witch, a victim of a heinous secret society, or possibly Ire...

Murder, My Dude marches on into the third month of the year with a trip to the past just in time for Women’s History Month. Only one woman was ever executed by the electric chair in the state of Georgia: Lena Baker, born at the turn of the century to a sharecropping family deep in the Jim Crow South. With that kind of deck stacked against her, it’s no surprise that Lena ran into hardship after har...

Do not adjust your podcatcher: this is not an episode of Murder, My Dude. The voices may sound the same, but the topics are different! This is a sneak preview of the first episode of Podantic! If you're as obsessed with accumulating useless information as Jackson & B.P. are, you've certainly come to the right place. In this episode, we start with the origin point for most modern television pro...

Murder, My Dude kicks off season five with a big announcement, and a new feud for the ages: B.P. Burke vs the last name of this week’s main attraction: William Heirens (Heir-ens? Hair-ens? Hi-rens?) However you pronounce it, Heirens was accused of being Chicago’s infamous Lipstick Killer, suspected of murdering two women and a six-year old girl in the mid-1940s. While Heirens confessed to the crim...

It’s milestone time - this is Murder, My Dude’s 100th Episode! And, like most of our episodes, it contains a lengthy tangent about halfway through (this one’s about when holidays should be) and is jam-packed with the kind of irreverent true crime comedy goodness that only we can provide! This week, that includes the introduction of a new member of one of our hosts' extended family and an idea that...

Farewell, double digits! Murder My Dude hits the century mark next week, and we’re doing so with a double episode! This week and next, we’re taking a look at the infamous, unsolved Zodiac killings that plagued the greater San Francisco area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The culprit in this case terrorized his victims and taunted law enforcement and the media with code ciphers, some of which h...

Murder, My Dude returns this week with a case right out of The Big Apple (or, at least, the island right next to it.) Joel Rifkin’s awkward, unhappy childhood led him to a shiftless life that culminated in a brutal serial murder spree lasting about four years. Like the more famous Jack, Joel the Ripper preyed on sex workers, though he preferred the streets of New York City to those of Whitechapel....

This week’s super-sized episode of Murder, My Dude takes a look at crimes on a bigger scale than the ones we usually cover. Given our penchant for delving into politics, of course we have to cover the January 6th attempted insurrection on the Capitol, which we delve into during This Week In Murder. Also, we cover new developments in a chilling case of family annihilation in a Florida community des...

New year, same true crime comedy goodness! 2020 saw the conclusion of an infamous Australian murder case that was four decades in the making. Andrea Blanchard and Leonard Warwick’s marriage was a short and tumultuous one, ending four years after it began. Their subsequent divorce and custody battle, however, was long and arduous. This week, we explore it and the lives lost in the process. Also, Th...