Outline of A Murder

The year is 1560. Elizabeth of Bathory was born August 7th on the family estate in the Kingdom of Hungary to Baron George VI Bathory and Baroness Anna Bathory. She ran around Eased Castle as a young child. Her family included one cardinal and sever bishops, judges, governors, sheriffs, two princes of Transylvania and one king of Poland. Her family also included an uncle “addicted to rituals and wo...

The Hammersmith Killer. The London Nude killer. Jack the Stripper. Although his work hasn’t been the subject of endless books, podcasts, and television, he killed more victims than his close namesake, Jack the Ripper. Bodies of sex workers started showing up around the Thames in London in 1964, nude, strangled or drowned, and missing teeth that has been removed by the killer. None were sexually as...

Herman Webster Mudget of Gilmanton, NH was born May 16, 1861, the third of 5 kids. His parents were devout methodists. He was intelligent and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy at the age of 16. He married well. Had a son. And in his spare time robbed graves to supply cadavers to medical professors and to commit insurance fraud. A polygamist, a conman, and America’s first serial killer, who bu...

Everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper, one of the oldest unsolved cases in history. There are even Ripperologists that spend all of their spare time studying the case of the murders of disenfranchised women trying to secure a bit of food, a cot to sleep on, and feed their addiction to alcohol through sex work. But the case can’t be reduced to what we think we know about the victims. Many of them w...

Everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper, one of the oldest unsolved cases in history. There are even Ripperologists that spend all of their spare time studying the case of the murders of disenfranchised women trying to secure a bit of food, a cot to sleep on, and feed their addiction to alcohol through sex work. But the case can’t be reduced to what we think we know about the victims. Many of them w...

Sam Sheppard came from a long line of doctors in Cleveland, OH. Born December 29th, 1923, he attended Cleveland Heights High School and was an excellent student and athlete. He was class president for 3 years and met his future wife, Marilyn Reese in High School. He finished college and his medical education before completing a residency in neurosurgery at LA County General Hospital. He and Marily...

The year is 1945, the same year the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending WW2. The horrors of the Nazi Holocaust were uncovered. Rita Hayworth and Lauren Bacall were icons. It was a time of intense paradox—the horrors of war in Europe and the innocence of kids playing outside unsupervised and doors left unlocked. In Chicago two women were brutally murdered—both stabbed in the ne...

Elizabeth Short, born July 29, 1924, in Hyde Park in Boston was the middle child of 5 daughters born to Cleo and Phoebe Mae. Her father’s car was found abandoned on the Charlestown Bridge. Everyone thought he committed suicide leaving Phoebe to raise her 5 daughters alone until Elizabeth and her mother saw her father on a street in Medford, MA. After the shock of seeing a dad that was supposed to...

Elizabeth Short, born July 29, 1924, in Hyde Park in Boston was the middle child of 5 daughters born to Cleo and Phoebe Mae. Her father’s car was found abandoned on the Charlestown Bridge. Everyone thought he committed suicide leaving Phoebe to raise her 5 daughters alone until Elizabeth and her mother saw her father on a street in Medford, MA. After the shock of seeing a dad that was supposed to...

Elizabeth Short, born July 29, 1924, in Hyde Park in Boston was the middle child of 5 daughters born to Cleo and Phoebe Mae. Her father’s car was found abandoned on the Charlestown Bridge. Everyone thought he committed suicide leaving Phoebe to raise her 5 daughters alone until Elizabeth and her mother saw her father on a street in Medford, MA. After the shock of seeing a dad that was supposed to...

BTK—Bind, Torture, Kill. Every season, we end it with the scariest cases of all, the cases that could not be stopped no matter what you did. BTK, Dennis Rader, forever hanged how profilers and experts view serial killers. Before Rader, serial killers stuck to type, couldn’t quit, and eventually devolved getting caught. Not Rader. He was a family man, active church member, former soldier, married o...

BTK—Bind, Torture, Kill. Every season, we end it with the scariest cases of all, the cases that could not be stopped no matter what you did. BTK, Dennis Rader, forever hanged how profilers and experts view serial killers. Before Rader, serial killers stuck to type, couldn’t quit, and eventually devolved getting caught. Not Rader. He was a family man, active church member, former soldier, married o...

This case is unbelievable and still unsolved! It’s the case of Susan Powell, a young mother who disappeared and still has never been found. It’s the story of a pervert father-in-law, a poop bird husband, and two young boys who did not have to die. Warning: this case is disturbing. It will make you mad. And there are more twists and turns in it than any case we’ve done so far. We’ve extracted lots...

This case is unbelievable and still unsolved! It’s the case of Susan Powell, a young mother who disappeared and still has never been found. It’s the story of a pervert father-in-law, a poop bird husband, and two young boys who did not have to die. Warning: this case is disturbing. It will make you mad. And there are more twists and turns in it than any case we’ve done so far. We’ve extracted lots...

Pamela Fayed was smart. Her killers were not. They were just lucky. This is a case of the dumb leading the dumber. Greed. Anger. And a marriage that started off so well ending in death and destruction. It’s a story of how life circumstances can change others into monsters. We’ll give you the red flags. We’ll give you the clues. And use them. Trust your gut. Be the squeaky wheel. It could save your...

Ten years. Ten years of obsession ended up with a mother of two daughter and toddler quadruplets dead in the kitchen floor with her babies walking, crying, and playing in her blood. Her death was brutal. Shot in the face, throat slits, and stabbed. She crawled 15 feet after all of that to get to the phone when she died, a mother’s herculean effort to protect her babies. Her 13-year-old discovered...

Some spaces and places should be off limits—churches, hospitals, schools. This case reveals that that there are NO safe spaces or places. A beloved but old school nun, Sister Margaret, is found brutally murdered and posted with Satanic overtones in the sacristy of a hospital! Was she the victim of a serial killer at the time or someone you would never expect?

Is there ever a time when being nice is too nice, a kindness that puts you in danger? Yes! The murder of Megan Brown, her parents, and her new boyfriend are stunning evidence that being too nice is not always good. For those of you that are super kind, this case will serve as a reminder that there are evil people out there. People so evil that your kindness means nothings and will be used to destr...

Frank Spencer was an all-around great guy! A hard-working man. A family man. A good friend. Everybody liked him except one person, Maria Spencer. For years, Frank told everyone how he would die and who would do it because he was told how and who as well as stalked, his house burned down, and his girlfriend’s house burnt down. And the cops did nothing until he was dead. This is one of the most frus...

Every season, we extract red flags, clues, and cues in the hope to educate our listeners on what to look for in relationships and personal safety. But there are some cases where there are no discernible signs. Kelley Clayton’s case is one of those. A beautiful mother of two beaten viciously in front of her daughter as she drew the killer away from her kids.

Bonnie Haim loved her son, Aaron, more than anyone or anything else in life. Or at least her family thought until she disappeared one day. Her own parents thought she abandoned her family. Others weren’t so sure. There was no way Bonnie would leave Aaron. And it would be Aaron that would prove it many, many years later.

In this After Show Convo, we have a special guest that shares her memories of living in Anchorage at the time of Samantha Koenig’s kidnapping and murder plus we dive into the question of why we are so fascinated with true crime and serial killers?

In this After Show Convo, we have a special guest that shares her memories of living in Anchorage at the time of Samantha Koenig’s kidnapping and murder plus we dive into the question of why we are so fascinated with true crime and serial killers?

In this final Bundy After Show Convo, we dive into his childhood. Bundy tried to convince us that his childhood was normal. It was anything but. And it gives us clues into what fed into his psychopathy while not excusing his extreme evil. You’ll learn of his early violent behavior and sexual deviance as a teenager, why he engaged in necrophilia, and other weird things like his fetish and a haunted...

Many of us true crime buffs as well as some experts don’t believe that Bundy first started killing in 1974. In fact, the disappearance of eight-year-old Ann Burr in the early morning hours of August 31, 1961 is possibly the first murder committed by a then 14-year-old Ted. The intriguing connection and his confession of a “hypothetical first murder” makes him look good for this one. We also dive i...