Necronomipod

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock! On October 9th, 2020, Reagan was 21 years old and about eight months pregnant when she was killed in her home in New Boston, Texas. The woman who did it had spent months faking a pregnancy of her own. Her name was Taylor Parker. Tonight we'll go through who Reagan was, the deception that led Taylor to her door, the i...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Steven Pladl! In 1998, Steven and his wife put their infant daughter up for adoption, and a family in New York raised her as Katie Fusco. Eighteen years later, after she turned 18, Katie reached out to her biological parents and moved in with them. Within months Steven left his wife, and what developed between him and Katie is the reason this case exists...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, a downed US F-15 pilot, rescued after being shot down over Iran back in April, told intelligence officials he saw something strange before he ejected: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish. Then, a Cornell paper that figured out why AI chatbots, when ask...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we close out our series on Gary Ridgway! Tonight we'll get into the science caught up to Gary, and the plea deal that spared his life. Then the sentencing in December 2003, where the families finally got to stand up and look him in the face. And finally, where Gary is today, and case still being closed into the 2020's. Sponsored Learn more about your ad choices....

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on Gary Ridgway! We start with the day a desperate task force flew down to Florida and sat across from Ted Bundy, who told them how a killer like this thinks, because he was one. Then the 1987 search that got them a sample they couldn't use yet. The task force shrinking down to one detective working it alone. And Gary just settling into a q...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Back in December we covered the disappearance of Gretchen Fleming, last seen leaving the My Way Lounge in the early morning hours of December 4th, 2022, with the case stuck cold and a former cop named Preston Pierce as the named person of interest. Tonight we've got the updates. Human remains turned up in Wirt County, West...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our series on Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer! We covered this one back in 2019, came in under an hour, so we're doing it right this time. We start at the beginning, with Gary's childhood outside Seattle, the early warning signs, his time in Vietnam, and the religion he carried around right next to what he was actually doing. Then the killings, s...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Or at least that's what we told Mike. What we actually have for him tonight is a full Gypsy Rose Blanchard Extravaganza! First, Gypsy's ex Ryan Anderson is clapping back after she called him a clout leech. Then, Gypsy's new bikini photos and the latest round of headlines about her post-prison weight loss. After that, her ta...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Fritz Haarmann, the Butcher of Hanover! In the chaos of post-war Germany, Haarmann worked the central train station as "Detective Haarmann," offering runaway boys a meal, a job, or a place to sleep. Between 1918 and 1924, he murdered at least 24 young men in his apartment and sold cheap black-market meat to the neighborhood. We'll get into how a man with...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Robert Smalls, the enslaved man who stole a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom. On May 13th, 1862, while the three white officers of the CSS Planter were ashore for the night, Smalls put on the captain's hat, fired up the engines, picked up his wife and children, and navigated past five Confederate checkpoints in the dark giving the cor...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight we're wrapping up our dead scientists series by going through the rest of the list. We'll also get into the latest disclosure news, and the star-shaped UAP filmed by Ukrainian military drone footage that looks a whole lot like something the Pentagon already had in its files from 2013. Here's everything we talked abo...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Maury Travis, the St. Louis serial killer who murdered at least twelve sex workers between 2000 and 2002 and filmed himself doing it. Travis got away with it for years, targeting women from marginalized communities that nobody was looking for. We'll go through the murders, the single stupid mistake that led the FBI straight to his door, and what investig...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Tara Lynn Lee, the Macomb County mother who ran a nationwide adoption fraud scheme under the name Always Hope Pregnancy and Education Center. For four years, Tara posed as a licensed social worker and matched hopeful couples with birth mothers who didn't exist, babies who were never real, and pregnancies she made up from thin air. She took in over two mi...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we wrap up our two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. Tonight we're getting into the suspects, starting with James Lewis, the man who sent Johnson and Johnson an extortion letter demanding a million dollars to stop the killings and became the prime suspect for the next four decades. We'll walk through his criminal history, the other names investigat...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. We'll start with the morning of September 29th, when a twelve-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village took a Tylenol for a cold and died, and the hours that followed as authorities slowly pieced together that the deaths spreading across the Chicago suburbs weren't a coincidence. We'll walk through th...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight is Part 1 of a two-parter. In April 2026, a list of eleven missing or dead scientists with alleged ties to UAP and advanced propulsion research started circulating online and eventually went all the way up to the White House. Tonight we're laying the groundwork before we get into the list itself. We'll cover Amy Esk...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the murders of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. In the early morning hours of July 31st, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove her car into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio at over 90 miles per hour, killing her boyfriend Dominic and his friend Davion, who was along for the ride and had nothing to do with any of it. We'll walk through the relati...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as wrap up our series on Kenneth McDuff! Last week we covered the Broomstick Murders and the series of decisions that put him back on the street in 1989. Tonight we follow what happened next. We'll walk through the early 1990s killing spree that included the abduction of Melissa Northrup from a Waco convenience store and the abduction of Colleen Reed from an Austin...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, after 51 years, Utah County authorities have officially closed the book on the 1974 Halloween night murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, with DNA technology finally confirming what Ted Bundy confessed to before his execution but never got charged for. Then, a massive update in the Texas Killing Fields: prime suspect...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our Kenneth McDuff series by going back to the beginning! We'll cover McDuff's early life in Rosebud, Texas, the family dynamics that shaped him, and his juvenile record that should have been a flashing warning sign for anyone paying attention. Then we'll follow him into adulthood and walk through the night of August 6th, 1966 — when Kenneth and accom...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, we'll get into a string of recent sightings in the northeastern part of Ohio. Then, Afroman took the cops who raided his house to court after they sued him for putting raid footage in his music videos, and he won - we'll get into how and why. And finally, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland - the forme...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover George Metesky — the Mad Bomber of New York City, the man who spent sixteen years planting homemade pipe bombs in movie theaters, phone booths, and transit terminals all over Manhattan while the NYPD ran itself in circles trying to find him. From 1940 to 1956, Metesky planted over thirty devices, wrote taunting letters to the press, and never killed a si...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the case of Lisl Auman — the only person in Colorado history convicted of murder while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car. In 1997, a 21-year-old woman brought some guys along to retrieve her stuff from an ex-boyfriend's place in the mountains. What followed was a high-speed chase, a standoff at a Denver apartment complex, and the shooting de...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the folklore of Trinidad! We're diving into six figures from one of the most culturally mixed islands in the Caribbean — the Soucouyant, a skin-shedding vampire who flies through the night as a ball of fire; the Douens, faceless spirits of unbaptized children with backwards feet; La Diablesse, a beautiful woman with a cow's hoof hidden under her dress wh...

Jan Broberg was kidnapped twice — by the same man — while her parents stood by and did nothing. In this episode of Necronomipod, we cover the true crime case behind the Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight: how Robert Berchtold groomed Jan Broberg over years, manipulated her entire family, and carried out not one but two abductions. We break down how Berchtold gained the family's trust, the...