True Crime Never Sleeps

This week we dive into one of the world's most infamous school shootings in history; the tragic Columbine High School Massacre in Littleton, Colorado. At 11:19 AM, 17-year-old Rachel Scott and her friend Richard Castaldo were having lunch and sitting on the grass next to the west entrance of the school. Klebold threw a pipe bomb towards the parking lot; the bomb only partially detonated, causi...

They say crime doesn’t pay, but that statement seems to be only true for those who get caught. Fortunately for the justice system, there are a lot of criminals out there making it far too easy to round them up through some of the most ridiculous mistakes imaginable. This is our list of 10 of the dumbest criminals caught by stupid mistakes.  SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21...

The Sandy Hook School Shooting will forever be burned into our memories as Americans. The murder of so many innocent children. As of November 30th, 2012, 456 children were enrolled in kindergarten through fourth grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The school's security protocols had recently been upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review...

Yoshi Hattori was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the United States who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting happened when Hattori, on his way to a Halloween party, went to the wrong house by mistake. Property owner Rodney Peairs fatally shot Hattori, thinking that he was trespassing with criminal intent. The shooting and Peairs' acquittal received worldwide a...

The Somerton Man case is unsolved, and there is compelling evidence to suggest that someone wants it to remain that way for reasons that are not clear. The case involves not only an unknown poison, a book of Farsi poetry, and an unidentifiable corpse but also ballet and an even professor fixated on the number of teeth a person has. Internet sleuths also tie in a baby's death, perhaps killed to...

Larry Eyler is one of America's most sadistic and disturbing serial killers in history. In the 1980s, this man targeted young men and left a trail of bodies across the Midwest. This week on Shit Out of Luck, we dive into Larry and how he was finally caught after years of murdering innocent men. Leave a comment in the comment section below about this episode. Don't forget to hit that subscr...

In part two of our episode diving into the Boston Marathon Bombing, we take a look at the investigation and trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the justice that was handed down to him. Currently, he sits in solitary confinement, wondering if he will be executed for his crimes. SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.huntakiller.com - Promo Code...

This week we are talking about those innocent in prison who ended up getting executed. Supreme court justice Antonin Scalia once infamously implied that innocent people are never executed in the United States. "If such an event had occurred in recent years," he wrote, "we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent's name would be shouted from the rooftops by the abolition lobby.&#...

Deranged killer Ed Gein was notorious for being a necrophiliac who skinned the bodies of his victims to make clothing and furniture. The wild nature of his crimes inspired a wave of horror movies and books that are cemented in pop culture today, such as The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho. But it all started on a Wisconsin farm in the 1950s. This week on Shit Out of Luck, we take a look into Ed Ge...

The Boston Marathon bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Two terrorists and brothers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs, which detonated 14 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the race, killing 3 people and injuring hundreds of others, incl...

We bring you a new episode of Murder Monday and this week we take a closer look at Gertrude Banizzewski and the murder of Sylvia Likens. The abuse continued throughout the hot summer. However, the abuse seemed to be exclusively on Sylvia. Many believe that this was due to jealousy by Gertrude because of Sylvia’s good looks and potential in life. Many times Sylvia was denied access to the bathroom...

Today on another episode of the True Crime Never Sleeps podcast, we take a look at the ever-popular true crime genre. If you’re like me, there’s nothing better than settling into the couch after a long day’s work and flipping on the television to Investigation Discovery. Investigation Discovery, or ID, is a cable television network owned by Discovery Communications that features almost exclusively...

Andrei Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper, who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR. Chikatilo confessed to fifty-six murders and was tried for fifty-three of them in April 1992. He was convicted and s...

Welcome to an all new season of the True Crime Never Sleeps Podcast. This season we are diving into mass shootings across America. This week it's the 1984 McDonald's Shooting. The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was an act of mass murder which occurred at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator, 41-year-old J...

This week on Shit Out of Luck, we dive into the life and crimes of the co-ed killer, Ed Kemper. How one of the most notorious serial killers evaded police throughout his spree. All while sharing drinks with them at the local tavern. What finally lead to the capture of the "Co-Ed Killer"? SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.hunt...

Today we take a break from the sad tales of true crime and have some fun with the Pod Decks deck "What The F#$!" Give us your thoughts from the questions we answer. SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.huntakiller.com - Promo Code TCNS for 20% off your first box DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ON ALL MAJOR PODCAST P...

John Emil List was an American murderer and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, List killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared; he had planned the murders so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone suspected that anything was amiss. SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt...

Known in the press as the Muswell Hill Murderer, Scottish-born serial killer Dennis Nilsen tormented young men and boys who lived in the North London area from 1978 to 1983. Nilsen is believed to have murdered at least 12 people, although he confessed to having closer to 15 or 16 victims, many of whom may have been homeless or otherwise vulnerable, according to The Sun. His killing spree began in...

This week on True Crime Never Sleeps season finale, we dive into the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. On the morning of 27 December 2007, Bhutto met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. In the afternoon, she gave a speech at a PPP rally held in Rawalpindi's Liaquat National Bagh. On leaving in a bulletproof vehicle, she opened the car's escape hatch and st...

If you were a child of the 80s, you might remember an animated film called All Dogs Go to Heaven. Its theatrical release in 1989 was overshadowed by The Little Mermaid, which came out on the same day. Nevertheless, the VHS release was a huge success, which is how I came to watch this movie on repeat every Saturday morning growing up. This film is about a fun-loving, fast-talking dog who is murdere...

As a teenager, Niels Högel decided he would follow in his family's footsteps: Like his father and his grandmother, he would become a nurse. But, unlike his relatives, he would use the workplace to satisfy his curiosity about — perhaps even thirst for — death. And by the time his world came crashing down around him, Högel would become known as the most prolific serial killer in the history of m...

The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin was the culmination of an anti-violence rally in support of the Oslo peace process. Rabin was disparaged personally by right-wing conservatives and Likud leaders who perceived the Oslo peace process as an attempt to forfeit the occupied territories and a capitulation to Israel's enemies. Join us as we dive into the...

When Illinois State Police arrived at Fox’s Laundry, they found it empty with no one manning the front desk. But after moving through to the staff area, they were horrified to discover the bloody body of 40-year-old employee Kathy Ann Woodhouse. Crime scene technician Kenneth Otey would later testify that Kathy was found face down near the furnace, naked apart from a bra. There was a substantial w...

This week on an all new edition of Shit Out of Luck on the True Crime Never Sleeps podcast, we look into the life and crimes of Gary Ridgeway AKA "Green River Killer." Longtime suspect Gary Ridgway wasn't convicted of dozens of murders until 2001 — decades after he first started killing. It took law enforcement ages to prove he was the one leaving a trail of bodies across the northwest...

This week we are diving into the controversial assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.  The assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani by the US military has relations between Washington and Tehran hit a new low. US President Donald Trump says the assassination was necessary to prevent an imminent threat but Iran’s leaders and allies say the killing represents an act of war...