Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

Tyler Hadley told his friends he was throwing the party of the year and dozens showed up to drink, dance, and have the time of their lives in his parents' house. But what none of them knew was that his parents were still there, beaten to death with a hammer and hidden just down the hall. What started as a wild night of teenage rebellion would unravel into one of the most disturbing true crime stor...

Dallas in the early 1990s was no stranger to crime, but nothing prepared the city for the horror that came next. Three women—Mary Pratt, Susan Peterson, and Shirley Williams—were found murdered, their bodies dumped in plain sight, and each one missing their eyes. As panic gripped the streets of Oak Cliff, detectives began piecing together a chilling pattern that would lead them to one of Texas’s m...

Amy Lynn Bradley vanished without a trace from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in March 1998, just hours before the ship docked in Curaçao. What began as a family vacation turned into a decades long nightmare filled with suspicious sightings, missed opportunities, and chilling theories. To this day, her disappearance remains one of the most disturbing and baffling mysteries to ever unfold at sea. Ou...

Rey Rivera was charting a new course in life, ready to trade Baltimore for the bright lights of filmmaking in Los Angeles. But in May 2006, a cryptic phone call pulled him from his home, leaving only a strange note and an empty car. What followed was a discovery that defied logic and physics, cementing Rey's death as one of the most enduring mystery that continues to haunt investigators and armcha...

On the chilling night of December 14, 2000, in Wichita, Kansas, five young friends experienced a brutal home invasion that quickly spiraled into hours of terror, including abductions, repeated sexual assaults, and the cold blooded murders of four among them. This unspeakable crime was part of a terrifying, multi day spree orchestrated by two brothers, who left a trail of victims and plunged the en...

On the chilling night of December 14, 2000, in Wichita, Kansas, five young friends experienced a brutal home invasion that quickly spiraled into hours of terror, including abductions, repeated sexual assaults, and the cold blooded murders of four among them. This unspeakable crime was part of a terrifying, multi day spree orchestrated by two brothers, who left a trail of victims and plunged the en...

On a quiet Thursday night in April 2021, a former FedEx employee walked into the Indianapolis facility where he once worked and opened fire. In less than four minutes, eight people were dead, several others injured, and the gunman, 19 year old Brandon Scott Hole, had taken his own life. What followed was a painful revelation of warning signs that went ignored, a red flag law that failed to stop hi...

In the remote fishing village of Petit-de-Grat on Isle Madame, Nova Scotia, where the sea is both a livelihood and a way of life, tensions over lobster poaching exploded into one of Canada’s most shocking acts of vigilante violence. On the morning of June 1, 2013, 43 year old Phillip Boudreau, a notorious small time criminal known for stealing from fishermen’s traps, was brutally murdered on the o...

Joseph Kallinger was no ordinary killer. He was a father, a shoemaker, and a man driven by persistent voices only he could hear. Alongside his 12 year-old son, he carried out a series of brutal crimes that stunned the nation, including robbery, sexual assault, and cold-blooded murder. Behind every act of violence was a twisted belief that he was fulfilling a divine mission one that would ultimatel...

In August 1996, 18 year old Brook Weber arrived in Moss Point, Mississippi, for what was supposed to be a quick road trip with her new boyfriend, Jeffrey Wolfe. Hours later, Jeffrey was shot dead, and dismembered. While Brook was being held captive inside a homemade metal box by a man named Gary Simmons, whose violent fantasies had finally become reality. When she managed to escape, barefoot and a...

In January 2003, 26 year old Susan Wright reported her husband Jeff missing, telling friends and family he had stormed out after a fight. Just days later, his partially buried body was discovered in their backyard naked, bound, and stabbed 193 times. What followed was a trial that ignited national debate, as prosecutors painted Susan as a manipulative killer seeking insurance money, while the defe...

On September 20, 1988, 19 year-old Tara Calico vanished during a routine bike ride along Highway 47 in Belen, New Mexico, a route she knew by heart. Despite witness sightings of a suspicious truck following her and the discovery of her Walkman fragments on the roadside, no trace of Tara or her bike was ever found. Then, nearly a year later, a Polaroid was discovered in a Florida parking lot, showi...

Between 1997 and 1999, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz crisscrossed the United States by freight train, murdering at least nine people in their homes, all located near railroad tracks. Dubbed “The Railroad Killer,” he left behind a trail of victims brutally beaten, raped, or stabbed, often using whatever weapons he could find inside their homes. For years, law enforcement struggled track him, until one da...

In 2023, police raided a quiet home in rural Poland and uncovered one of the most disturbing incest cases in recent memory. What they found buried in the basement revealed years of abuse, manipulation, and the deaths of multiple infants. The horrors had been hidden behind the image of a father “just doing his best”. But in truth, he was a monster who ruled his home through fear. This is the true s...

In 1996, a college student vanished from her dorm at Nanjing University. Days later, her butchered, dismembered, boiled remains were found scattered across the city, over 2,000 pieces in total. The victim was 19 year old Diao Aiqing, a quiet, hardworking freshman whose brutal killing earned her the nickname "China’s Black Dahlia." Nearly 30 years later, her murder remains unsolved, and the killer...

Just before midnight on May 24, 2000, seven Wendy’s employees were called to the basement of their Queens, New York restaurant for what they believed was an end of shift meeting. Instead, they were ambushed, bound with duct tape, suffocated with plastic bags, and each was shot at close range. The attack was the result of a carefully planned robbery led by a former coworker who knew their names, th...

On October 31, 1984, 25 year old Doreen Erbert, who was eight months pregnant, was brutally murdered in her San Jose home by a masked intruder wearing a wolf costume. Her 4-year-old daughter witnessed the horror while hiding, and her husband returned home minutes too late to stop it, only to find a horrific scene left behind. As the investigation unfolded, detectives uncovered a deeply personal mo...

He looked like an ordinary student, he was quiet, well mannered, and barely out of his teens. But between 1964 and 1966, Karol Kot turned the streets of Kraków into his hunting ground, attacking elderly women and children with chilling precision. His reason? He said causing pain made him feel alive. By the time he was caught, the city knew him only by the name whispered in fear "The Vampire of Kra...

In May 2016, FBI agents arrived at the Minnesota home of Amy and Stephen Allwine with a chilling message: someone had attempted to hire a hitman on the dark web to kill Amy. The anonymous user had paid thousands in Bitcoin to a site called "Besa Mafia", a supposed murder for hire marketplace hidden in the encrypted corners of the internet. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a twisted plot...

On July 2, 1982, a 33 year old truck driver named Larry Walters launched himself into the skies above Los Angeles using a lawn chair and 45 helium filled weather balloons. Within minutes, he had ascended to 16,000 feet, drifting directly into controlled airspace near LAX, confusing commercial pilots and triggering a response from federal authorities. He carried no license, no flight plan, and no t...

nnie Kasprzak was just 15 years old when she vanished from her quiet suburban home in Riverton, Utah. A note left behind suggested she had run away, but within 24 hours, her beaten body was discovered in the icy waters of the Jordan River, her face so badly disfigured she had to be identified by dental records. What began as a runaway case quickly spiralled into a murder investigation riddled with...

uby Franke rose to online fame as the matriarch of 8 Passengers, a YouTube family vlog that gained millions of views for its portrayal of traditional parenting and everyday life. But behind the scenes, a much darker reality was unfolding, one that came to light in 2023 when her 12 year old son escaped from a home in southern Utah, showing clear signs of abuse. The disturbing case led to Franke’s a...

Ruby Franke rose to online fame as the matriarch of 8 Passengers, a YouTube family vlog that gained millions of views for its portrayal of traditional parenting and everyday life. But behind the scenes, a much darker reality was unfolding, one that came to light in 2023 when her 12 year old son escaped from a home in southern Utah, showing clear signs of abuse. The disturbing case led to Franke’s...

Reagan Hancock was just 21 and weeks from giving birth when her life was stolen in one of the most disturbing crimes in recent memory. Taylor Parker, who had faked an entire pregnancy to her boyfriend, brutally attacked Reagan in her own home, beating her, stabbing her over 100 times, and cutting her unborn baby from her womb with a scalpel. Taylor then fled the scene with the infant, intending to...

When 18 year old Katie Fusco contacted her biological parents, she was looking for answers about her adoption and identity. What followed was a deeply disturbing chain of events. She moved in with her birth family, became romantically involved with her biological father, and gave birth to his child. The relationship led to arrests, court orders, and ultimately a multistate murder-suicide. This is...