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FAM! This week, as a fun little bonus, we wanted to share with you one of our FAVORITE episodes from our Patreon feed! We think that our coverage of "Lorena" is some of our funniest, most intense, rage-iest work so we wanted to share the first episode on the regular feed! If you'd like to hear the rest, become a part of the Patreon Fam for just $5 per month. If you do that, you'll also get almost...

On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a New Orleans gay bar. The result was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history--Thirty-two people were killed and some three bodies were never identified. And despite the staggering historical significance, few people know about the tragedy and the circumstances that have made this one of the most viscous unsolved crimes in US hist...

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT? Turns out, there are LOTS of people believe it is. Is their evidence compelling? Not really, but their conspiracies run deep and cross over into everything from being anti-vaccination to, you know, believing that the school systems invented dinosaurs to keep kids dumb...or something like that. For us, this was 90 minutes of rage, and that always makes for a g...

FAM! QUEEN GILLIAN GOT SUPER SICK THIS WEEK AND SO WE HAD TO RUN A CLASSIC EPISODE! First please note that, unbeknownst to us before we picked this episode to rerun, THIS IS THE EPISODE WHERE WE INVENTED BOTH OUR THEME SONG AND…WAIT FOR IT…THE GARBAGE BELL!! Any-who, Gillian is much better now and we'll be back next week with that bonkers #FlatEarthDoc "Behind the Curve. ENJOY! Meet Joyce McKinney...

This episode covers episodes 4 - 6 of the Oxygen series. For part 1, covering episodes 1 - 3, go here.  Or listen on Spotify here .  It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a promising young nursing student, left her college dorm, emptied her bank account, and drove to a remote New Hampshire town where she didn't know a so...

This episode covers episodes 1 - 3 of the Oxygen series. It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time:  On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a promising young nursing student, left her college dorm, emptied her bank account, and drove to a remote New Hampshire town where she didn't know a soul. Just after 7pm, her car crashed into a tree. A witness spoke to her, of...

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez - four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. The film begins its journey inside a Texas prison, after these women have spent nearly a decade behind bars. They were 19 and 20 years...

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD chalked it up as a suicide and refused to investigate. But Marsha was a lover of life and many who knew her refused to believe she would have taken her own life.  Now, a quarter century later, at a time of unprecedented visibility and escalating...

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, it was revealed that the technology she'd invented didn't work--it never had. Her $10-billion-dollar company dissolved, investors lost everything, and Holmes now faces jail time.  LOOKING FOR MOR...

GAYS! DRAG QUEENS! LIZA! DISCO! DRUGS! TAX FRAUD! DO I REALLY NEED TO GO ON? Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velve...

This episode covers episode 4 of the HBO series.  For our episode on Part 1 go here For our episode on Part 2 go here For our episode on Part 3 go here In Part 3, the state's case against Adnan Syed falls apart as Adnan's legal team PROVES that he didn't murder Hae Min Lee. The state-held DNA evidence is finally tested and it all but exonerates Adnan. THIS IS THE EPISODE WHERE WE FINALLY GET ALL T...

This episode covers part 3 of the 4-part HBO series. For our take on Part 1, go here! For our take on Part 2,  go here!   And stay tuned till THE VERY END of the episode to hear a preview of our interview with Rabia Chaudry.  In part 3, Adnan’s 2016 appeal draws to a close, his family and attorneys brace for a ruling that could result in a new trial and hope for an acquittal 20 years after Hae Lee...

This episode covers part 2 of the 4-part HBO series. For Part 1, go here! In part 2, Private investigators attempt to recreate circumstances at the crime scene, questions arise about the veracity of alleged accomplice Jay Wilds, the centerpiece of police and prosecutors’ case against Adnan Syed, we meet Jenn Pusateri (who is slightly terrifying), AND ASIA IS BACK (and looking flawless). Directed b...

Directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg, The Case Against Adnan Syed will explore the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, a case brought to global attention by the hugely popular Serial podcast. In Part 1, we meet Adnan, Hae, and their friends in the magnet program at Woodla...

This podcast episode covers episodes 3 &  4 of the Netflix series . Listen to Part 1 (covering episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series) HERE. In this episode, Ted Bundy breaks out of prison TWICE. He terrorizes south Florida where he takes at least 6 more victims. When he's finally caught, he decides to represent himself in court--in America's first-ever televised murder trial--and the shenan...

SURPRISE! this week we wanted to do something we’ve never done before—give every member of the TCO fam access to one of our Patreon full bonus episodes. We decided that our take on "Making A Murderer" season 2, episode 1 would be a great example to share of what we’re doing over on the Patreon feed. Tick Tock, it's Zellner 0'Clock, you guys.  CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE PATREON FAM! As a reminder, if y...

This podcast episode covers episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series. On the 30th anniversary of his Florida execution, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES brings the infamously twisted mind of serial killer Ted Bundy into the light for the very first time in a fresh yet terrifying way through exclusive, never-before-heard interviews from the "Jack the Ripper of the United States," hi...

It's Daisy's school vacation week, so Patrick is on full time dad duty! We'll be back with a brand new episode next week covering episodes 1 & 2 of Netflix's "The Ted Bundy Tapes." The following week, we'll cover episodes 3 & 4! Mommy Dead And Dearest: Late on the evening of June 14, 2015, deputy sheriffs in Greene County, Missouri, found the body of Dee Dee Blancharde laying facedown in a...

For 13 summers, Timothy Tredwell journeyed into the Alaskan wilderness to spend four months living among the grizzly bears. Though Treadwell believed that he and the bears had an understanding--he considered them his close friends--he and his girlfriend Amy Huguenard were eventually killed and devoured by one of the bears. For the five summers before his death, he took a video camera on his trips...

The Fyre Festival was the defining scam of the millennial generation. Marketing for the 2017 music event went viral with the help of rapper Ja Rule, instagram stars, and models, but wound up being an epic failure as it stranded thousands of people in the Bahamas. Featuring an exclusive interview with Billy McFarland , the convicted con-man behind the festival, FYRE FRAUD is a true-crime comedy doc...

Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families. Their jaw-dropping, feel-good story instantly becomes a global sensation complete with fame and celebrity, however, the fairy-tale reunion sets in motion a series of events that unearth the unimaginable secret behind their separation.  LOOKING FO...

Mike and Mina Block were married for 54 years. Friends, family, and neighbors all thought they had the perfect marriage. But then Minna died suddenly, and three months later Mike was married to his former secretary. Suddenly everyone realized that nothing in the Block home had been what it seemed to be. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? Binge our 40+ bonus episodes via Patreon! When you join our Patreon fam,...

Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America's legal system, but is that a fair rendition of the facts? Hot Coffee reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spill...

In the summer of 1977, Jim Jones, leader of The Peoples Temple, moved nearly 1,000 of his followers to a plot of land in Guyana, South America. Less than a year later, on November 18, 1978, 908 of the followers died after drinking Kool-Aid laced with poison. Was it murder or suicide? And what had made all of these people follow Jones to their deaths? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? Binge our 40+ bonus episo...

BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN tells the story of the internet's elusive Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier lured their best friend into the woods, stabbed her 19 times, then set out on an odyssey to meet the tall and faceless man known online as Slenderman. Shot over 18 months with heartbreaking access to the families of the would-be murderers, the f...