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Elizabeth Chambers joins Jennifer Fessler to break down the devastating Haight family murders and the chilling warning signs that preceded the tragedy. Discussing her Investigation Discovery special, Toxic: What Happened in the Haight House?,  Elizabeth reveals the controlling behaviors, financial abuse, and red flags that may have been missed before Tausha Haight, her five children, and her...

A New Jersey father of two vanishes, only for his dismembered remains to turn up in three suitcases along the Virginia coast. His wife is convicted of murder, but investigators never establish exactly where the gruesome dismemberment took place. How could someone commit such a horrific crime without leaving behind an obvious bloody crime scene? Actor and attorney Michael Roark joins Elisa to exami...

Listen if you want to… Does Noah Wyle deserve to be People’s Sexiest Man Alive? Who we actually want to see perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in LA. Amy’s zombie apocalypse survival plan and how long her water supply would really last. The  Nobody Wants This  fire alarm scene that sent Danielle over the edge.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

Halloween is all about costumes, candy, and spooky fun, but these true crime stories are scarier than fiction. 🎃 Jen Fessler and Elisa Donovan discuss three chilling cases involving a Halloween-night murder, a devastating family massacre, and a father who poisoned his child’s Halloween candy. It’s a haunting look at the real-life horrors behind the holiday. See omnystudio.com/lis...

What did romantic rejection have to do with the Unabomber's murderous rage? Possibly more than anyone realized. Former FBI profiler James Fitzgerald joins Elisa Donovan to reveal the disturbing stories buried in Ted Kaczynski's private writings: including a disastrous date, a humiliating workplace incident, and the resentment Fitzgerald believes helped fuel his violence.  See omnystudio.com/l...

Convicted sex offender Howard John Gombert Jr. is nearing release from prison, and investigative journalist Paul Solotaroff believes he may hold the key to solving the 30-year-old disappearance of 17-year-old Robin Murphy. Jennifer Fessler speaks with the host of The Devil’s Quarry about the clues investigators may have missed, why Gombert was never aggressively pursued as a suspect, and whe...

Ken McElroy terrorized an entire town and kept getting away with it. Until the day his luck ran out. He was gunned down in front of dozens of witnesses, and suddenly “nobody saw a thing.” In Broad Daylight author Harry MacLean joins Elisa Donovan to unpack this wild true crime story, how McElroy became untouchable, and why everyone stayed silent. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Listen if you want to… Why is everyone hating on Kylie Jenner as a newly crowned Victoria’s Secret Angel We’ve got reviews, our no filtered thoughts on Widows Bay, Crystal Lake, and You Can See Everything  A towel and drawer dilemma that many can relate to at home.  Asking for a friend, if you are staying for free in their apartment, should you abide by their rules? Se...

Elisa Donovan and Jenn Fessler are still trying to process Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything . From outrageous revelations to laugh-out-loud absurdity, the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary is unlike anything they've ever watched. Elisa and Jenn break down the wildest moments and debate the question at the heart of it all: Who's manipulating whom? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

What did relatives know, and what did they keep secret? Actress Marlene Forte, who played the brothers' aunt in Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story , joins Killer Thriller to reveal the disturbing family secrets, the warning signs that may have been ignored, and why José Menendez's own sister defended the nephews who murdered him.  See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

A teenage girl, a major cocaine operation, and seven years in federal prison. Jennifer Fessler sits down with Denise Trigo Fleming, author of Dealing : Memoirs of a Cocaine Teenpin , to explore how she went from a teenager caught up in Southern California’s glamorous drug scene to serving time in federal prison. Denise opens up about the dangerous relationships and fierce loyalties that kept...

He may seem sweet, attentive and genuinely interested in your daughter. But what if the romance is actually a trap? In  Stolen From the Suburbs , starring Sydney Sweeney, teenage girls are manipulated by young men they think they can trust before being abducted into a sex trafficking ring. Actress Brooke Nevin explains the real grooming tactic known as the “Romeo trap,” how traffi...

Even the most handsome man can fall victim to a red carpet fashion crime. Alexander Skarsgård, we love you, but we need to talk about those shoes. Ben Affleck is an Oscar winning director, so how did one major flub make it into his new film Animals?  Tobey Maguire is officially setting the bar way too high for ex-husbands after officiating his ex-wife’s wedding Miami Vice is filmi...

Ted Kaczynski has been remembered as a brilliant, isolated killer, but people who actually knew him described another side. A local librarian who befriended him said he tutored her child and could make her laugh for hours. Sharlto Copley, who plays him in Ted K , reveals the startling details he uncovered while researching Kaczynski and the side of the notorious killer most people have never heard...

A woman is murdered, her body dumped in the Mississippi River, and nearly 30 years later, her ghost may help lead investigators back to her killer. Jennifer Fessler sits down with writer and director Philip Cairney to unpack HBO’s  The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story , a chilling true-crime investigation filled with mob ties, buried secrets, shocking twists, and eerie encounters tha...

Denise Brown recounts the terrifying night she says she watched O.J. Simpson grab Nicole by the throat and lift her off the ground as Denise desperately tried to pull him away. Nicole left with her that night but returned the next day. Denise explains why she once blamed herself and what she now understands about why victims go back. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen if you want to… Everyone locked in on DWTS this week, but who stood out to us the most?  Tom Cruise we love you, but we have to admit, we didn’t know what Digger was about.  If Dooms day arrived tomorrow, how prepped are you? Realizing are six degrees of separation to the cast of RHOSLC.  A skunk maybe ruining our lives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister Denise reveals the warning signs of abuse her family missed, including a shocking photo of Nicole’s battered face that she explained away as 'movie makeup.' More than 30 years later, Denise opens up about what Nicole was hiding from the people closest to her, and what she wishes she had understood before it was too late. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

Comedian and actor Dane Cook joins Jen Fessler and Elisa Donovan to open up about the shocking betrayal at the center of his new documentary, Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story . After discovering his half-brother had stolen millions from him, Dane’s life, career and relationship with his family unraveled in ways he never saw coming. He reveals what the betrayal did to him personally, how he r...

Michelle Carter told her suicidal boyfriend Conrad Roy to go through with it and when he tried to back out, prosecutors said she told him to get back in the truck. The Girl From Plainville creator Patrick Macmanus takes Killer Thriller inside the explosive “texting suicide” case and reveals what he discovered in thousands of private messages about their complicated relationship. See om...

Listen if you want to… Tom Cruise is usually good at everything he does, but what did he manage to completely botch this week? Off Campus stars were busy this week; Belmont Cameli’s new Reebok ad, cringy or iconic?  Ella Bright’s full circle moment with Taylor Swift had us smiling  Why we are convinced Antonio Cipriano is the next big thing  A hot take about Jenna...

Elisa Donovan and Jenn Fessler react to the guilty verdict in the American Idol murder case and the stunning evidence that convinced a jury despite no recovered murder weapon, no gunshot-residue test and no blood on Caleb. Jenn says the more than 100,000 messages between Caleb and his mistress may have essentially become the prosecution’s “murder weapon.” See omnystudio.com/liste...

John Wayne Gacy buried victim after victim beneath his home until he ran out of room.  'Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy' showrunner Patrick Macmanus takes us inside Gacy's house into the crawl space where victims were buried and exposes the shocking failures that allowed the murders to continue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At its core, the podcast is about an age-gap friendship that feels both unexpected and completely natural. Two women at different points in life, bonded by shared chaos and girlhood in all its forms. Lisa, fifty-something, glamorous, and gloriously unfiltered, has lived through it all and has the stories (and hot takes) to prove it. Lexi, thirty and running her own shoe brand, grew up on reality T...

What started as a high school sociology project became a real cold-case investigation. Jennifer Fessler sits down with teacher Alex Campbell, whose students spent hundreds of hours digging through evidence, building timelines, challenging theories and chasing answers in the infamous Redhead Murders. Campbell shares what they uncovered, why he believes teenagers are an untapped resource for cold-ca...