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It's been a good run with the Massacre Matinee, but it's time for us to stop. The passion for this hobby burnt out, and with death and loss in our families it made it harder to focus on death and gore and murder for the podcast. Let us know down below what your favorite episode was!

Hi Guys! Welcome back to the Matinee! In the interest of keeping everyone informed on the goings on about the podcast, Ari and Kate need a mental health break. Between loss in the family for Kate and overwhelming stress for Ari, we are hoping that you will all forgive our need for a bit of time. Going into the future, after our one month break, the podcast will be going to episodes EVERY OTHER WEE...

Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today's episode includes a live reaction to a video taken immediately following the murder of America Thayer. In 2021 a headless corpse was found in the middle of an intersection, and the neighbors caught it on video. Today Kate tells us about the brutal murder of America Thayer! With all of our episodes being uncensored, there are always possible triggers. Th...

Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! In Sam's first official hosting episode she's talking about Carl Großmann, a man with many murder victims and many sausages made from the flesh of his victims. This one is another just like our Karl Denke case, the Germany area of Europe in the early 1900s. Stick around, its a doozy! With all of our episodes being uncensored, there are always possible triggers...

Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Top O' The Mornin' to ya! Well. Top o' the afternoon anyway. For St. Patrick's Day we cover the unsolved murder case of 14 year old Rachel Hurley. After over 30 years the culprit hasn't been named. The lack of information is baffling and her best friend has been the biggest advocate for trying to get the crime solved ever since the day it happened. Strap in, d...

Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today a new guest The Lioness (Sam) host joins us as Ari talks about Karl "Papa" Denke and his string of murders against the homeless in early 1900s Poland (before it was even really Poland.) This case and the next are INCREDIBLY similar, in nature and in era of occurrence. Join us to learn more about it! With all of our episodes being uncensored, th...

Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today we talk about Marv. Prior to his attack on the town of Granby, Colorado, Marvin Heemeyer made a series of audio recordings explaining his side of everything. Clips of those tapes are included in the episode as we talk about what happened to this man that pushed him to such a far breaking point that he spent over a year planning and building a Komatsu D35...

Happy Leap Day! CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today's "holiday" episode is on Richard Ramirez, better known as The Night Stalker. Honestly, the only thing tying him to the leap day holiday is his birthday, but we ain't picky lol. His reign of terror...

SUGGESTED BY FOLLOWER abi ON SPOTIFY! Thanks Abi!! CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today, thanks to a suggestion from a follower, we are going to talk about Helen Ruth Spence, known as the White River Swamp Angel. The early 1900's were a different time, and in the 1930...

CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today, Kate is going to tell us about the Slenderman Stabbing, which happened in good ole Wisconsin. At the height of the Creepypasta popularity, a 12 year old girl with a family history of hereditary mental health issues felt like she h...

CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Our Valentine's Day special is about Oscar Pistorius, a former para-Olympic champion who shot and killed his then-girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The facts are a little fuzzy on this one, so along with our own speculations we wonder if it wa...

CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! For Mardi Gras, we looked into the 2001 Seattle Mardi Gras Riot, which resulted in the murder of Kristopher Kime, an innocent man that was trying to render aid to a woman that was the victim of assault. Knowing now in 2024 that Seattle c...

CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! The National Suicide Hotline is (800)273-8255 You can also call or text 988 for The Lifeline or text "Home" to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. There is always help, if you need it PLEASE ask for it, these numbers can help. Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Tod...

CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today, for a bonus episode on the day of Lunar New Year, Ari is going to tell us about the 2023 Monterey Park Shooting, which happened during Lunar New Year celebrations just blocks away from the main festivities. With all of our episode...

CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! The National Suicide Hotline is (800)273-8255 You can also call or text 988 for The Lifeline or text "Home" to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. There is always help, if you need it PLEASE ask for it, these numbers can help. Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today, Kate i...

CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today, Ari is going to talk about two different cases involving pedophilia, both with an interesting twist. First up is Jason Vukovich, a man who robbed and assaulted three men in Alaska following his years of trauma at the hands of his...

Welcome back to the Massacre Matinee! Today, Kate is going to tell us about John Norman Collins, aka the Ypsilanti Ripper from downstate Michigan. Collins was the original Co-ed killer before Ed Kemper, but with some key differences in the way he brutalized women in the late 1960's. With all of our episodes being uncensored, there are always possible triggers. These triggers may include, but are n...

Welcome back to Season 2 at the Massacre Matinee! Today, Ari is telling us about the execution of Joseph Wood, who murdered two people in 1989. In 2010 the medication for lethal injections was experiencing a shortage and it caused some...interesting side-effects. With all of our episodes being uncensored, there are always possible triggers. These triggers may include, but are not limited to: foul...

Welcome back to Season 2 at the Massacre Matinee! Today, Kate is going to tell us about Natascha Kampusch, a 10 year old who was kidnapped in 1998 on her first morning walk to school alone. The things this girl went through prior to her escape to freedom are disturbing, and there are two books written by Natascha herself (3096 Days & 10 Jahre Freiheit). Join us for this intense survival story as w...

Welcome to Season 2 at the Massacre Matinee! To ring in the New Year with a holiday horror episode, we are going to discuss the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, a pair of young folks from New Zealand that vanished in the early morning hours of New Years Day following a MASSIVE celebration. Problem is, we still don't actually know what happened to them. Today's snack, despite not being m...

Welcome to the Season 1 Finale episode for the Massacre Matinee. It's been a great 2023, here's to a better 2024! Today, Kate is telling us about Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who went from a victim, to a murder plot, to a free woman. Gypsy was the victim of her mother DeeDee's Munchausen by Proxy, and after a lifetime of being told she was critically ill, she finally decided she wanted her freedom. But t...

You've made it to the end of the year with the Massacre Matinee, and now what? Now its a bonus story time! When Steve the Yeti was a guest on the podcast, a story was cut out of the original episode by the Yeti's request, but we got the OK to post it for a special end of year episode! Steve is a former bodybuilder from Canada, and the man is built like a gahddamn tank, very tall, very wide, very B...

Welcome back to the Matinee! CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Today, Mingus is telling us the the final details of the Marsh case, the murder, trial and aftermath. A lot of motion happened on this case both during and after the trial. Legal changes and new bills from the Senate really made this an interesti...

Welcome back to the Matinee! CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Today, Mingus is telling us the backstory behind the murders of Oliver Northup, Jr. and Claudia Maupin at the hands of Daniel William Marsh, a man who at 10 years old saved is father's life and by his mid-teens turned to murder. In a rare case wh...

Welcome back to the Matinee! CHECK US OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA! Search The Massacre Matinee on Facebook and Instagram for a sneak peak into the next episodes! Today, Panda really wants to tell you who shot Lonnie Feather, but Mingus made it complicated by making her wait until the end. The details are a bit shocking, but her survival is a story worth telling. With all of our episodes being uncensored,...