Story Crime Podcast

On December 6th, 2009, Susan Cox vanished from her home in West Valley City, Utah. A beautiful, kind mother of two… gone without a trace. The person at the center of the investigation was her husband, Josh Powell. But this isn’t just a story about a missing woman — it’s about manipulation, abuse, and and a series of events that would lead to the deaths of almost an entire family. Sources: If I Can...

FINALLY we have reached to end of our Bonnie and Clyde series. I'm sorry for the delay, but due to illness and scheduling conflicts we had no choice but to push this episode a little further than we would've liked. In the final part of this series, we will be discussing the last few months of The Barrow Gang's crime sprees, some devastating injuries to at least two of the gang members, a tragic de...

Hey everyone, we are excited to give you part three of our Bonnie and Clyde series. In this episode we will be talking about Bonnie and Ralph Fults time in jail, more burglaries, and several of the many murders that mostly Clyde committed with the help of his ever rotating cast of accomplices. We will also talk about a raid on the outlaws home in Joplin, Missouri that would end up producing some p...

In part two of Bonnie and Clyde we are going to be talking about the early days of the new couple's relationship, Clyde's prison experiences, and the early blunders of the Barrow Gang. Don't forget to check out the amazing book I read for this episode: Go Down Together by Jeff Guinn Insta: @storycrimepod Email: storycrimepod@gmail.com

Hey Everybody and Happy Halloween We are back with our first episode in a very long time! We are so excited to be bringing you the infamous story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. In Part one of our two part series, we will be giving you the back story of the two lovebirds. This is a story that we thought we knew, but as it often turns out, we knew very little. Much of the story of Bonnie and Cly...

Welcome back to our third and final installment of our Pee Wee Gaskins series and believe me when I tell you, I couldn't be happier to be finished with this one. In this episode we talk about how Pee Wee was brought to justice and the last murder he committed that landed him on death row, right where he deserved. This isn't a long episode but trust me there are some nifty twists and turns...

 With International Women’s Day coming up this week I wanted to celebrate a courageous and beautiful woman, who seriously slayed right until the end of her life. We will be discussing the murder of a 31 year old woman called Judy Malinowski. On August 2nd,2015, Judy was violently and viciously attacked by someone in her life that she should have been able to trust with her well being, her boyfrien...

Welcome back to part 2 of 3 of our Pee Wee Gaskins series. In this week's episode we will be talking about Pee Wee's life after getting out of prison in 1968 and the majority of the known murders that he committed between 1970 and 1975. Pee Wee often contradicts himself in the various interviews he gave about his life of crime so I've tried to piece the information we have together in...

Donald Henry Gaskins, or Pee Wee as he was nicknamed due to his small stature, was an American serial killer from South Carolina who stood just a whisper over 5 ft 4 inches tall. Despite his small size, he was convicted and sentenced to life for 13 known murders, and eventually sentenced to death after committing his 14th known murder while serving his life sentence. There’s a lot about Pee Wee’s...

Hey Everyone Welcome to our latest episode where we have a somewhat chaotic conversation about the follow up season to The Curious Case of Natalia: Natalia Speaks. In this episode, we discuss all of the new information that Natalia brought to the table to tell her side of the story in her own words. We also talk about how absolutely unhinged Michael and his mutton chops are, the useless neighbours...

Mary Bell was just 10 years old when she and her best friend, Norma, embarked on a short lived crime spree, resulting in the death of two young toddlers. Mary's life was full of trauma from an early age, and despite practically screaming out to everyone around her that she needed help, guidance, and love, her pleas were either dismissed as simply problem behaviour, or ignored completely. This...

In this week's episode we cover the horrendous Houston Mass Murders of the Candy Man Dean Corll. Corll was given the nickname the Candy Man because he ran the local candy factory in the area of Houston, Texas known as the Heights. Over the span of about three years, Dean, along with two teenage accomplices, would lure, abduct, torture, rape, and murder upwards of 27 boys and young men. Despite...

In this week's episode we cover the horrendous Houston Mass Murders of the Candy Man Dean Corll. Corll was given the nickname the Candy Man because he ran the local candy factory in the area of Houston, Texas known as the Heights. Over the span of about three years, Dean, along with two teenage accomplices, would lure, abduct, torture, rape, and murder upwards of 27 boys and young men. Despite...

In January 2001, gifted athlete and all around amazing human being, Diane Whipple, was killed in her apartment building by the two large dogs that belonged to a neighbouring couple. What first appeared to be a tragic accident would soon lead to a murder investigation unlike any that the city of San Francisco had ever experienced. As the case unfolded, authorities would learn about the dog owners&#...

Anneliese Michel was a young woman from Klingenberg, Germany who underwent 67 exorcisms within the last 10 months of her life. For years, she had been struggling with what doctors believed to be symptoms related to epilepsy, but as her condition worsened, she became depressed, withdrawn, and believed that she was possessed by demons. Was this a case of a woman who had slipped into a psychosis caus...

In the late 70’s a string of seemingly random murders terrified the people of Sacramento California. First, a drive-by shooting of an elderly man with no enemies or any reasons to be a target of such a senseless killing. This was followed by some of the most gruesome murders many in law enforcement had ever seen. A young, expectant mother was found shot in the head and her body completely mutilate...

Florence "Sally" Horner was just 11 years old when she was kidnapped by convicted child rapist Frank LaSalle. For the next 21 months, Frank would take Sally on the road with him, changing their names and telling those he met along the way that Sally was his daughter. Despite law enforcement trying desperately to find and save Sally, Frank always seemed to be one step ahead, moving just i...

The McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California was, at one time, one of the most respected and highly sought after schools in the area. At the height of its popularity, anyone associated with the school or its staff was considered a pillar of the community. That was until 1983, when accusations of child sexual abuse against the owner's grandson, Raymond Buckey, came to light, setting in...

Welcome back to the podcast for the second part of our Andrei Chikatilo series. Andrei Chikatilo was an Ukrainian serial killer who confessed to 56 murders between 1978-1990. He had many nicknames, most popular of which was the Red Ripper, or the Rostov Ripper, as many of his crimes took place in or around Rostov, Russia. His victims were mostly children. He engaged in the most depraved acts one c...

WELCOME BACK FOR OUR 50th EPISODE!! And boy do we have a crazy one for you guys today!!! Andrei Chikatilo was an Ukrainian serial killer who confessed to 56 murders between 1978-1990. He had many nicknames, most popular of which was the Red Ripper, or the Rostov Ripper, as many of his crimes took place in or around Rostov, Russia. His victims were mostly children. He engaged in the most depraved a...

Hey Everyone! We are taking a pause from our pause to bring you a reaction episode to the recent ID Discovery documentary, "The Curious Case of Natalia Grace". We recently watched this together and went on a roller coaster of emotions throughout. As two people who work with children, this doc confused, horrified, disturbed, and angered us and we knew we couldn't just let it sit. So,...

We are back with part two of William "Wild Bill Cody" Neal and it's full of even more WTF moments. Wild Bill Cody was known as a charismatic, smooth talking cowboy to most who knew him. When he went out to bars, he would generously throw around money, tipping the servers extravagantly and buying rounds for the entire bar. He claimed to have millions of dollars stashed away in trust funds and said...

Hey Everyone We are back with another episode full of WTF's. This is one that I personally had never heard of until I came across a book called "Love Me to Death" by Steve Jackson. This book took me on a wild ride and I just had to share this case with all of you. Wild Bill Cody was known as a charismatic, smooth talking cowboy to most who knew him. When he went out to bars, he would generously th...

Today's case is an extremely hard one and one that I've been wanting to cover for a while. This is the tragic and horrifying case of the murder of 12 year old Shanda Sharer. In January of 1992, Shanda was lured from her father's home by four teenage girl's, three of whom she had never met before that night. She as brutally assaulted, tortured, and set on fire before succumbing to her various injur...

In this week's episode, we conclude our 2 part series on the infamous Rillington Place Strangler, John Reginald Halliday Christie. We will be talking about the rest of the horrific murders that John committed, how is crimes were uncovered, and how this monster was ultimately identified and arrested. John would try to lie his way out of trouble, but any rational human could tell that the tales he w...