True Crime Obsessed

One rainy New York night in 1996, Lorri Davis went to see a movie. It was a documentary about the murder of three cub scouts found in the woods and the three outcasts who were blamed for the crime. From there, her life changed forever. Here’s the story of how a young landscape architect, fell in love and into the fight to free the West Memphis Three.  This episode is part of a ten-part series call...

On a cold day in 1983, a plumber was called to an apartment building in the Cranley Gardens neighborhood of North London. The building drains were clogged. And when he climbed down into plumbing "man hole" he saw what was causing the blockage: human flesh and bone. What followed was essentially an elaborate confession by one of the building's tenants: Dennis Nilsen who explained to the police that...

This show has a bone to pick true crime podcasts. Where are all the women’s perspectives? The detectives, the witnesses, the movers and shakers of any case are not always dudes. So let’s widen our framework, shall we? On Let The Women Do The Work, join host Gillian Pensavalle as she follows the stories of ten dynamic, inspiring, badass women in true crime, one episode at a time. Let The Women Do T...

LET'S OBJECTIFY SOME MEN FOR A CHANGE! The Chippendale all-male review (read STRIP SHOW) was the hottest shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. And it was all fun and games UNTILL THE MURDERS STARTED HAPPENING. First a Playboy playmate who frequented the club where the men stripped is killed. And then someone much closer to the show is murdered in his office in the middle of the day. THIS IS WHY...

Three young women vanish months apart from each other. Massive searches ensue for each. Days or weeks later, each one is found dead in the location they were last seen. In each case, their deaths are ruled hypothermia even though there's evidence of foul play. How could they have been missed by searchers? Were they abducted, murdered, and then brought back to the place they vanished? Loni Coombs i...

On July 2, 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her fiance, 23-year-old Briann Laundrie took off on the adventure of a lifetime. Driving cross country on a "vanlife" adventure that Gabby shared with the world via her instagram account. By late August, Gabby stopped communicating with her family. And then on September 2, Brian returned home without Gabby. AND HE REFUSED TO SPEAK WITH AUTHORITIES OR H...

On the evening of June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh, a member of one of the most powerful families in South Carolina, came home to a brutal scene: The bodies of his 21 year old son, Paul, and 52 year old wife, Maggie. Both of whom had been shot multiple times. Could this be connected to the death of Paul's friend Mallory, who had been thrown from a boat Paul had been driving while drunk? And as the auth...

On May 25, 1996, 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart went to an off-campus party. Around 2 am, she was last seen being helped back to her dorm by another student named Paul Flores. No one ever saw Kristin again. It would take over 25 years to unravel the mystery of what happened that night and to be able to prove what happened to Kristin Smart. COME SEE US ON TOUR !! In May we're hitting Chi...

DON’T WORRY, YOU ONLY HAVE TO HEAR WARREN JEFFS SING ONCE. Look, tick tock, it’s cult o’clock. We’re back with the FLDS (the culty fundementialist sect of the Mormon faith) and it’s ten years after that piece of s**t pedophile Warren Jeffs went to prison FOR LIFE. The devoted followers he left behind are suffering and trying to pick up the pieces of their broken lives, all while trying to keep the...

Adrienne Shelly was a writer and actress best known for writing and co-starring the film Waitress , which was later turned into a Broadway musical. But on the evening of November 1st, 2006 she was fond dead--hanging in the bathroom of her West Village, NYC office. The initial assumption by investigators was suicide, but her husband Andy didn't believe it and pushed the cops to work the case like a...

THERE'S NO MURDER! NOBODY DIES! AND A BUNCH OF RICH CHARDONNAY (PROBABLY, RIGHT?) CHUGGING CUL-DE-SAC MOMS LOSE A BUNCH OF MONEY. THIS CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING: IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT BEANIE MANIA! Also, we beg you, please don't throw your kids OUT OF THE CAR onto A FIVE LANE HIGHWAY when a DELIVERY TRUCK OVERTURNS just to snag a handful of McDonalds-bound Teenie Beanies. Just please don't. COME S...

A madman is on the loose. The press is calling him The Torso Killer because of the gruesome headless and handless bodies he leaves behind. And while investigators search for him in New York City, similar murders are discovered across the river in New Jersey. After one woman narrowly escapes, a suspect is identified. Now they have to find him before he kills again. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patr...

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FAM! THIS IS A TWO-PARTER! Part 2 is available RIGHT NOW AND AD-FREE at the $5 level on Patreon as a special bonus. Part 2 will be our regular episode next.   Times Square, 1979: fire fighters and police are called to a low budget motel where a room is on fire. What they find is "the motel room from hell"--where two headless and handless torsos have been set ablaze. Investigators begin a frantic s...

Between 1971 and 1983, meek and mild Robert Hansen seemed to have it all; a loving wife and children, a successful bakery business, and world-record hunting trophies bringing him respect from his peers. But behind this carefully cultivated exterior lurked a cold-blooded serial murderer who confessed to killing 21 women, 17 of which were recovered. It was only due to the actions of a few dedicated...

6 years ago, Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins were woken in the middle of the night. It was a male voice who said, "wake up, this is a robbery." They were both drugged and bound, and Denise was kidnapped and heled for 48 hours before being released. The ordeal was horrific, but even more terrifying: Nobody believed them. The cops insisted the whole thing was a hoax, even as the kidnapper made it cle...

On December 6, 2014, 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was set on fire and left for dead. Her injuries were horrific and she died a few hours later. Who would do this to the popular young woman, and why? Investigators had few clues to go as the dogged search for Jessica's killer takes over her small town. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGH...

On October 9, 1999, 18-year-old Rocio Wanninkohf was brutally murdered. Her mother's ex-girlfriend was immediately charged for the murder and convicted. But did she do it? Three years later, another young woman is murdered just steps from her front door. And when the two cases are connected, investigators realize they have a serial killer on the loose.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed ,...

THREE WORDS: DEAD. FART. LEGGINGS. Meet Mark and DeAnne, the founders of LuLaRoe - the legging company that went from explosive startup to four-alarm corporate wildfire. They share their life stories up to the founding of LuLaRoe. Seeing dollar signs, DeAnne grows her business from one woman selling dresses to a massive network of saleswomen. The business takes off and the future looks bright. May...

Scott and Yarmila Falater had it all. A beautiful marriage, 2 kids who adored them: the perfect upper middle class existence. But then, on January 16, 1997, Scott brutally murdered Yarmila while their children slept. He stabbed her 42 times before throwing her body into the family pool to make sure she was dead. He has never denied doing this. However, he says he's not responsible because he was s...

WILLIAM ELIZABETH AND ALEXIS ARE BAAAAAAAACK, and they are knock knock knocking on people's doors trying to figure some shit out. AND YOU ALL NEED TO PULL THE HELL OVER because this time they're unraveling the mystery of the world's most terrifying AND I'M GONNA SAY IT diabolical online stalker. The guy is STILL OUT THERE and is a total psychological terrorist who has turned the lives of dozens of...

PATRICK AND GILLIAN AGREE! THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DOCS WE'VE COVERED IN A WHILE! In 1997, Misha Defonseca, a Holocaust survivor living in Massachusetts, wrote a memoir. She said she was 7 years old when she fled into the woods to escape the Nazis. And she'd been protected on her years-long journey by a pack of wild wolves. It was the most incredible story anyone had ever heard...but could it poss...

It's been 18 years since Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci. In that time, some members of his family have been working tirelessly to prove his innocence--that he couldn't have killed Laci. Some of their evidence is compelling, but so much of Scott's story still doesn't make sense. But Scott's attorneys are certain that if he's granted a new trial--which seems more and...

Two days after Christmas, 2011, Russ Faria came home to find his wife, Betsy, dead. Betsy’s brutal murder set off a chain of events that would leave another person dead and expose a diabolical scheme. AND. THE. WHOLE. THING. IS. TOLD. TO. US. BY. KEITH. MORRISON LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode...

Chris Watts and his wife Shanann seemed to have it all: Thriving careers, wonderful friends, two beautiful kids with a third on the way. But then on August 13, 2018, Shanann’s best friend Nicole can’t get ahold of Shanann. She calls and calls,  and then goes to Shanann’s house. Shanann’s car, purse, phone, wallet, medication are all there, but Shanann and the kids are gone. The mystery of the disa...