You're Killing Me

In 1989, a woman named Gabrielle walked into a hospital in rural Ontario. She'd made it to the road somehow — flagged down a car, let strangers drive her somewhere with lights. Her left arm below the elbow had been cauterised. Burned shut. Someone had taken it. That someone was Roch Thériault. And Gabrielle was one of the lucky ones. From 1978, Thériault — a charismatic, volatile Quebec-born m...

In 1999, Craig Folbigg was going through boxes as his marriage collapsed. Somewhere in the house, his fourth child had just died. He was looking for something — anything — to make sense of it. He found a notebook. Then another. Handwritten diaries his wife had never shown him. He sat down and read them. Then he made a decision that would define the next twenty years of Kathleen Folbigg's life....

At Taylor Parker's gender reveal party, something wasn't right. The bump didn't look right. The dates on Facebook didn't add up. The ultrasound she'd posted at twelve weeks showed a foetus that looked nothing like twelve weeks. Guests caught each other's eyes across the yard. A medical professional couldn't stop staring. Afterwards, calls were made. Texts were sent to l...

It's mid-July 2011 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Sixty teenagers are packed into a house on Grandeur Avenue — red solo cups, warm beer, music thumping through the walls. The host is 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, and the party is everything he always wanted. His parents, Blake and Mary Jo Hadley, are in the master bedroom down the hall. Behind the locked door, underneath a pile of blood-soaked towels...

Israel Keyes agreed to talk to the FBI. He just didn't agree to tell them everything. After his arrest in 2012 for the abduction and murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Alaska, Keyes entered into a deal with investigators: he would confess — but on his terms, in his own time, with details released only as he chose. Over months of FBI interviews, he described murders stretching from Vermon...

You're Killing Me — Episode: Israel Keyes, Part One He buried murder kits across the country years before he needed them. He flew into cities, rented cars under false names, and drove hundreds of miles to kill strangers he'd never met — people with no connection to him, no pattern, no motive anyone could trace. Israel Keyes didn't just commit murders. He engineered them. In Part One, we cover his...

Five police officers are clearing a flat in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire. They've already searched 1,800 properties. This is just another one. Then Detective Constable Nick Townsend crouches beside a divan bed and hears a small voice coming from inside it. A nine-year-old girl wriggles out of a hidden slot in the base. Tear-streaked. Terrified. Blinking. She says: "I'm Shannon." S...

In 2006, the quiet city of Medicine Hat, Alberta became the centre of one of Canada’s most horrifying family murders. Twelve-year-old Jasmine Richardson and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, were accused of brutally murdering Jasmine’s mother, father, and eight-year-old brother inside their family home — a crime so shocking it immediately made international headlines. What began as an onl...

On May 31st, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times — all to prove their loyalty to a fictional internet character known as Slenderman. This is the story behind one of the most disturbing cases in modern true crime. We follow Payton Leutner — the girl who survived — and the two friends who believed they had no choice but...

In 2001, British backpackers Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees were traveling through the Australian outback when they were flagged down by a stranger on a remote highway. What happened next became one of Australia's most infamous unsolved mysteries. Peter was shot and killed—his body never found. Joanne escaped and hid in the desert for five hours while a killer hunted her with a torch and a dog...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In February 2021, a 19-year-old named Brian Cohee drove his car into the Colorado River — with a murdered man's remains in the boot. The next morning, his mother Terri went to clean his room and found something she will never unsee. This is the true crime story of Warren Barnes — Grand Junction, Colorado's beloved "Reading Man" — and the teenager who spent si...

The Miracle Survival of Alison Botha: A True Crime Story of Unbelievable Resilience ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault, extreme violence, and near-fatal injuries. Listener discretion is strongly advised. On December 18, 1994, 27-year-old Alison Botha was abducted from outside her Port Elizabeth, South Africa apartment by two men who would subject her t...

The Murder of Shad Thyrion | Taylor Schabusiness Case | Green Bay Dismemberment | You're Killing Me Podcast EPISODE DESCRIPTION: At 3:23 AM on February 23rd, 2022, a mother in Green Bay, Wisconsin made a discovery that would horrify even the most seasoned homicide investigators. When Tara Thyrion went to check on her 24-year-old son Shad in the basement of their home, she found a bucket covere...

🎄 He sees you when you’re sleeping. But Santa was never the only one watching. Long before Christmas became soft and sparkly, winter was brutal — and obedience was enforced with fear. In this special Christmas episode of You’re Killing Me, Shawnee dives into the dark, blood-soaked origins of Krampus — the horned enforcer who followed Saint Nicholas, dragging bad children away in sacks, beating th...

Brisbane, 2014. A young couple move into a Teneriffe apartment for what’s meant to be a fresh start: new city, new lease, same old money problems. Three weeks later, one of them is dead and the other is about to become a headline. In this episode we meet 27-year-old Indonesian woman Mayang Prasetyo and her husband, chef Marcus Volke . We follow them through Melbourne’s adult industry, a quick marr...

In 1822, eight convicts escaped from Sarah Island — the most brutal prison in Van Diemen’s Land. Only one came back alive. His name was Alexander Pearce… and he’d eaten the rest. In this episode, Shawnee dives deep into one of Australia’s most disturbing true stories — the brutal escapes, the descent into madness, and the hunger that turned a man into a legend. From starvation in the Tasmanian wil...

Eight bodies. Six plastic barrels. One abandoned bank vault in the middle of nowhere. By the end of the 1990s, John Bunting’s murderous “cleansing” campaign had escalated beyond backyard interrogations into full-scale slaughter — and Snowtown became the silent storage facility for the group’s dead. In Part Two of this two-hour deep dive, we follow the Snowtown killers as their crimes spiral out of...

It starts with the smell. Long before police opened a bank vault in Snowtown and found eight barrels of human remains soaking in acid, there was a quiet boy in Inala digging tunnels under his family home, torturing bugs in jars and learning all the wrong lessons about power, pain and “cleansing” the world. In this first part of our deep dive into the Snowtown “bodies in the barrels” murders, host...

They called themselves vampires. They killed a sixteen-year-old girl for fun. In this episode, Shawnee explores the chilling murder of Stacey Mitchell — how a runaway teenager met two lovers locked in a shared psychosis, and how their fantasy of blood and devotion ended in a wheelie bin behind a Perth house.

In 1986, the quiet Perth suburb of Willagee hid a secret darker than anyone could imagine. Behind the door of 3 Moorhouse Street, David and Catherine Birnie lured young women into what looked like an ordinary home — but it was a house of torture and death. Over just four weeks, four women vanished: Mary Neilson, Susannah Candy, Noelene Patterson, and Denise Brown. Each was trapped, brutalised, and...

Australia’s vast outback has always promised freedom — but for seven unsuspecting backpackers, it became a place of horror. Between 1989 and 1992, young travellers began vanishing along New South Wales highways. Their remains were later found buried deep inside Belanglo State Forest — bound, brutalised, and left as trophies. The man responsible was Ivan Milat — a gun-obsessed truck driver from Syd...

In this episode of You’re Killing Me , we head deep into rural Australia to uncover one of the most chilling crimes in the country’s history — the story of Katherine Knight. Born into violence, raised in trauma, and forged in the blood and brutality of the abattoir, Katherine’s life spiraled from chaos into horror. What began as a story of abuse and survival ended in one of the most shocking murde...

Welcome to You're Killing Me, your latest true crime obsession. Launching the 24th of October, 2025 AEST. We can't wait to dive into the depths of the human psyche with you.