This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

"I did not kill the president. The doctors did. I merely shot him." That was Charles Guiteau's defense. In 1881, a failed lawyer and preacher convinced himself he'd single-handedly won James Garfield the presidency — and that the president now owed him a job. When the reward never came, he decided Garfield had to die. In Part 2 of Founding Felons Week, Tyrella and Nikita get into who Guiteau reall...

Founding Felons is back! A bullet put President James Garfield on the floor of a train station in 1881 — but it wasn't the bullet that killed him. In Part 1 of Founding Felons Week, Tyrella and Nikita trace the unlikely life of James A. Garfield: the dirt-poor Ohio farm boy who couldn't swim but dreamed of being a sailor, and the self-taught general who went on to win the closest popular-vote elec...

After the guilty verdict, most people wait quietly. Taylor Parker wrote a confession to the murder — and signed it as someone else. Part 2 is the half the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct never showed. After she was convicted of capital murder, Taylor Parker ran a months-long jailhouse operation to frame other people for the killing of Reagan Simmons-Hancock — forged confessions, fabricated c...

Before she was a Netflix documentary, Reagan Simmons-Hancock had a name, a daughter, and a baby due in weeks. This is the part the cameras skipped. The Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tells the story of Taylor Parker, who faked a pregnancy for nearly a year — fake ultrasounds, a silicone belly, even a gender reveal — before committing one of the rarest and most disturbing crimes there is: fe...

Caysen Allison stabbed a classmate more than once and got 10 years. Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf once and got 35. Both said it was self-defense. Part 2 opens at Anthony's sentencing in Frisco, Texas — including the victim impact statement from Austin's mother that reframes the whole debate — then sets the case beside a strikingly similar one out of Belton: same self-defense claim, very d...

A handcuffed 17-year-old corrects the officer reading him his situation: "I'm not alleged. I did it." Behind him, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf is dying under a track-meet tent. In April 2025, Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf — two teenagers from rival Frisco, Texas high schools who'd never met — ended up under the same tent at a district track meet. Four minutes later, one of them was gone, and th...

In 2005, Wade Robson swore under oath that Michael Jackson never touched him — and helped win the acquittal. In 2026, he's asking a different jury to believe the opposite. Part 2 picks up where Netflix's "The Verdict" stops. Tyrella and Nikita get into what the documentary left out: the $20M+ Jordan Chandler settlement, the Robson and Safechuck lawsuits against Jackson's companies, and the credibi...

Fourteen counts. Not guilty on every single one. Twenty-one years later, Netflix has reopened the case — and one of Michael Jackson's own defense witnesses is about to change his story. In June 2005, Michael Jackson walked out of a Santa Barbara courtroom acquitted of all 14 child sexual abuse charges. Netflix's new three-part docuseries "The Verdict" revisits that 2005 trial, and in Part 1 Tyrell...

When Patrick Clancy walked back into that house after 54 minutes, it was silent. Three small children were in the basement. Lindsay was outside on the ground. Part 2 of TFC's Lindsay Clancy coverage picks up the night of January 24th, 2023 — the minute-by-minute timeline, the phone evidence the prosecution is relying on, and Lindsay's own account of what she says happened once Patrick left. Tyrell...

She was a labor and delivery nurse at Mass General. She screened in the severe range for postpartum depression, told her care team again and again that something was deeply wrong, and checked herself into the top psychiatric hospital in the country. The day after her final psychiatrist appointment, all three of her children were gone. In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita walk through who Lindsay Clancy w...

Five weeks before he died, Christian Obumseli sent his girlfriend a text that read: "Is love going to kill me?" He was dead 33 days later, and she was not arrested for four months. This is Part 2 of the Christian Obumseli case. Christian was a 27-year-old Nigerian American from Dallas — a former college linebacker, an engineering grad, a guy his whole community called a light in the room. He fell...

He texted her "Is love going to kill me?" and was dead 33 days later. What the medical examiner found next changes everything. Christian Obumseli was a 27-year-old Nigerian-American engineer and former college linebacker who met OnlyFans creator Courtney Clenney in Tulum in 2020. Over the next two years, their relationship became increasingly violent — documented in police body cam footage, elevat...

Two weeks before the crash, Dom Russo was secretly recording her. Days before he died, he used a friend's phone to do it — which tells you everything about where things were. In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita pick up where the evidence gets undeniable: the secret recordings Dom made of Mackenzie in the days before his death, the highway incident two weeks prior where a witness heard her say "I will cr...

Two weeks before the crash, a witness heard Mackenzie Shirilla say "I will crash this car right now." On July 31, 2022, she did — at over 100 mph, into a brick building, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and his friend Davion Flanagan. Netflix released a documentary called The Crash. It covered the case. It did not cover everything. In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita walk through the victims' backgro...

She posted it to TikTok before she called the police — and then 30 million people saw it. That decision may send her to trial on two Class E felonies. In Part 2 of the viral DoorDash case, Tyrella and Nikita break down the charges against driver Livvy Henderson: unlawful surveillance and dissemination of unlawful surveillance images. They walk through exactly why the prosecution's job may be easy,...

She posted a video of a man — unconscious, partially nude, in his own home — and 30 million people believed every word she said. Within weeks, she was the one under arrest. Olivia Henderson is a 23-year-old DoorDash driver from Oswego, New York, who went viral in October 2025 claiming a customer had sexually assaulted her during a delivery. The video exploded on TikTok before anyone thought to ask...

A Substack post became a federal probe in eight weeks. That's faster than most podcast episodes get edited. So what actually happened — and what does it mean that it can happen again? In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita move from the individual cases and start interrogating the system. They break down apophenia — your brain's tendency to find patterns even where none exist — and trace exactly how one in...

A plasma physicist texted a former spy: "If you ever see a report that I killed myself — I most definitely did not." Then that's exactly what the report said. In under eight weeks, one Substack post turned into a White House briefing, an FBI probe, and a House Oversight Committee inquiry. The story: 11 deaths and disappearances of US government-connected scientists. But is it a pattern — or a stor...

In Part 2 of our d4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez update, Tyrella and Nikita cover what prosecutors dropped at the April 23rd status hearing — exactly one year to the day Celeste was last seen alive. Prosecutors told the judge that Burke's iPhone and iCloud contain a significant amount of child sexual abuse material, and they've only reviewed one terabyte out of eight. They also break down the ful...

Singer d4vd has been arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her body was found decomposed and dismembered in the front trunk of his Tesla. He was on tour when they found her. In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita cover the full refresher on who Celeste was, how her remains were discovered, the arrest and charges, and what the autopsy revealed. Part 2 drop...

In the conclusion of our "Best of the Trial" series, Tyrella and Nikita dive into the most emotional and bizarre moments from the Kouri Richins courtroom. We start with Robert Grossman, the "boyfriend" whose testimony began with a moment so unusual that Judge Mrazik had to halt proceedings to explain the concept of "the whole truth." We break down the devastating texts, the $25,000 life insurance...

Episode Title: Kouri Richins Trial: The PI Who Cracked the Case (Part 1) Kouri Richins was convicted of murdering her husband, Eric, with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a Moscow Mule she made for him. But while the world was focused on her children's book about grief, Tyrella was focused on the three weeks of absolute courtroom chaos that led to the verdict. In Part 1 of our "Best of th...

In 1991 in a small, rural town in Wisconsin, five members of the Brenizer/Berentson family left their home to go shopping.  When they didn't return, 15-year-old Bruce was concerned that his father, stepmother, and sisters were missing.  As the investigation unfolded, rumors of an ax murderer or satanic worship were afoot, but when the truth was revealed, it was much worse than anyone in this small...

In September of 1996, 15-year-old Danielle "Danni" Houchins was found lifeless and face down in a marshy area in Belgrade, Montana. The local sheriff's department ruled her cause of death as drowning and her manner of death as undetermined. The sheriff told the press that there were no indications of foul play, despite autopsy findings showing the exact opposite. For 24 years, Danni's case continu...

What happens when you turn a "bullshit" police raid into a viral rap song? In August 2022, the Adams County Sheriff's Office raided Afroman's home looking for a basement dungeon that didn't exist. When no charges were filed, Afroman did what he does best: he made music. Using security and bodycam footage, he released hits like "Lemon Pound Cake" and "Randy Walters," leading seven officers to sue h...