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

Part 1 of 2 John Edward Robinson is a conman, grifter, embezzler, kidnapper, and murderer.  For decades, Robinson ran schemes or flat out stole from his employers for monetary gain, but eventually escalated to murder.   He would use classified ads to attract victims, but once the internet became commonplace in American homes, Robinson used it to find victims.  Because of this, the media often refe...

Part 2 of 2 On January 27th, 2020, Letecia Stauch called the El Paso County Sheriff's Department to report her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon, missing. She said that he'd gone to play with friends, but should've been back home an hour ago. Detectives arrived at the Stauch home, unknowingly beginning an investigation that would last years, revealing that Gannon had been brutally murdered at the hands...

On January 27th, 2020, Letecia Stauch called the El Paso County Sheriff's Department to report her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon, missing. She said that he'd gone to play with friends, but should've been back home an hour ago. Detectives arrived at the Stauch home, unknowingly beginning an investigation that would last years, revealing that Gannon had been brutally murdered at the hands of someone t...

Tamara Samsonova, dubbed "The Granny Ripper," was caught in 2015 after being seen on CCTV footage making seven trips out of her apartment with plastic bags and a saucepan containing the dismembered body parts of her roommate, Valentina Ulanova.  Samsonova admitted to killing Valentina as well as three other people right away.  However, her victim count was much higher than four.  Trigger Warnings:...

On April 19th, 1993, FBI agents began pouring tear gas into a compound known as Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas. It was the final act of a 51 day standoff that had taken place between law enforcement and a religious group known as The Branch Davidians. After a failed attempt by the ATF to serve a warrant to arrest the group's leader, David Koresh, for stockpiling illegal weapons, the standoff began. B...

On April 19th, 1993, FBI agents began pouring tear gas into a compound known as Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas. It was the final act of a 51 day standoff that had taken place between law enforcement and a religious group known as The Branch Davidians. After a failed attempt by the ATF to serve a warrant to arrest the group's leader, David Koresh, for stockpiling illegal weapons, the standoff began. B...

On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, Edwin Alemany took to the streets of Boston, Massachusetts, and attacked three women.  Two women survived, but unfortunately, one woman lost her life.  Amy Lord had just left her apartment in Southie in the early morning hours on her way to the gym when she was attacked.  After forcing Amy to give him her money, he drove her to a remote location and brutally murdered her...

On Memorial Day weekend of 1990, 40-year-old Marlene Warren heard the doorbell ring in her Palm Beach County home. When she opened the door, she was delighted to find a clown standing on the porch, holding two balloons and a basket of carnations. The clown handed the gifts to Marlene, then pulled out a gun and shot her in the face. Two days later, Marlene died in the local hospital, with nobody un...

On a Monday in May of 2005, deputies in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho responded to a call at the Groene residence. When they arrived, they found blood covering the walls and floors of the home. The bodies of the mother, Brenda, her boyfriend, Mark, and Brenda's 13-year-old son, Slade, were lying on the living room floor, clearly victims of a vicious attack. A triple murder was unheard of in the small Idaho...

On Friday, December 27th, 1985, 28-year-old Deborah Ann Wolfe didn't show up to her job as a nurse at the Fayetteville, North Carolina Veterans' Medical Center. Her mother was immediately concerned and reported her missing. The young nurse was found less than a week later, dead in the pond outside of her cabin. Her death was ruled accidental, but Debbie's family, friends, and much of the community...

Leon Benson spent more than half of his life, a total of 24 years, in an Indiana state prison for a murder he didn't commit. Despite the lack of physical evidence and a questionable eyewitness identification, he was convicted. But new realities start to come to light when attorney Lara Bazelon takes up his case and is determined to secure Benson's release. Season three of Suspect, co-produced by C...

Since the early 1970s, dozens of bodies of murder victims have been found along the Interstate Highway 45 area.  While there have been arrests made for some of the murders that have taken place in the area, the vast majority remain unsolved.  Some theorize that the area served as a dumping ground for multiple serial killers that were operating in the area, but that has never been proven.   ***TRIG...

Since the early 1970s, dozens of bodies of murder victims have been found along the Interstate Highway 45 area.  While there have been arrests made for some of the murders that have taken place in the area, the vast majority remain unsolved.  Some theorize that the area served as a dumping ground for multiple serial killers that were operating in the area, but that has never been proven.   Part 1...

Kimberly Iron, 21. Faith Lindsey, 17. Sabrina Rosette, 33. Cecelia Barber Finona, 59. Jermain "Liz" Morigeau, 23. Olivia Lone Bear, 32. Faith Hedgepath, 19. Sherryl Lynn Jacquot, 43. Monica L. Bercier Wickre, 42. All of these Indigenous women were either murdered or disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Some have been solved, most of them have not. These are just a few names out of thousands...

Kimberly Iron, 21. Faith Lindsey, 17. Sabrina Rosette, 33. Cecelia Barber Finona, 59. Jermain "Liz" Morigeau, 23. Olivia Lone Bear, 32. Faith Hedgepath, 19. Sherryl Lynn Jacquot, 43. Monica L. Bercier Wickre, 42. All of these Indigenous women were either murdered or disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Some have been solved, most of them have not. These are just a few names out of thousands...

On Saturday, March 1st, 2008, the Caffey family home in Emory, Texas was engulfed in flames. Terry Caffey, the father, had been shot five times and had amazingly escaped the burning home and crawled 500 yards to his neighbors' house, where 911 was called. Firefighters found the burned remains of 38-year-old Penny Caffey, 13-year-old Matthew, and 8-year-old Tyler. Still missing was 16-year-old Erin...

Natalee Holloway was on her senior class trip in Aruba in 2005.  The graduates decided to go out with a bang on their last night on the island and went to a popular bar to have some fun and some drinks as the legal drinking age there is 18.  Natalee was seen leaving the bar with a few local boys and was never seen again.  It's been 18 years and neither Natalee nor her remains have been found.  Nat...

Part 2 of 2.  Larisa Dumansky and Piper Streyle were young mothers carving out their place in the world when they were taken too soon by a sexual sadist in the nineties in South Dakota.  Both women were abducted, raped, tortured and killed by Robert Leroy Anderson - The Duct Tape Killer.  Trigger Warnings: Murder by Suffocation/Strangulation, Rape, Torture, Suicide Hang with us: Follow Us on Insta...

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Part 1 of 2.  Larisa Dumansky and Piper Streyle were young mothers carving out their place in the world when they were taken too soon by a sexual sadist in the nineties in South Dakota. Both women were abducted, raped, tortured and killed by Robert Leroy Anderson - The Duct Tape Killer.  Trigger Warnings: Murder by Suffocation/Strangulation, Rape, Torture, Suicide Hang with us: Follow Us on Instag...

On a warm Friday evening in June, in the small town of Alma, Arkansas, 6-year-old Morgan Nick left the bleachers of a Little League baseball game to go catch fireflies with her friends. Her mother watched as she ran into the parking lot and played. Less than half an hour later, Morgan was gone. Two witnesses, ages 8 and 10, saw Morgan stop to get sand out of her shoes, while a man in a red truck w...

Overview of the case in case you don't know: On the night of June 7, 2021 Alex Murdaugh called 911 to report that he had come home to find his wife and son "shot badly." His wife Maggie and son Paul were found dead on the family's sprawling property named "Moselle." They were found at the property kennels which were about ⅓ mile away from the main house. Both were shot multiple times; Paul was kil...

Basically I watched the trial so you don't have to! On the night of June 7, 2021 Alex Murdaugh called 911 to report that he had come home to find his wife and son "shot badly." His wife Maggie and son Paul were found dead on the family's sprawling property named "Moselle." They were found at the property kennels which were about ⅓ mile away from the main house. Both were shot multiple times; Paul...

On the morning of July 10th, 1981, shots rang out in the small town of Skidmore, Missouri.  Outside of the D&G Tavern, the engine of a truck could be heard roaring to life, until it gave out, and eventually the engine blew.  In the truck was the body of Ken Rex McElroy, who was known in Skidmore as the "town bully."  Incredibly, with dozens of people surrounding the truck when the shooting took pl...

From 1932 to 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were perhaps the best-known outlaws in the United States.  It was during the Great Depression that Bonnie and Clyde rose to fame for their daring bank heists and Robin Hood-esque crimes.  Hollywood glamorized them as a young couple in love, but in their time on the run, they left a trail of death and destruction in their path and are believed to be...