This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

The Caleb Flynn murder trial centered on one question: who killed Ashley Flynn? Caleb Flynn said an intruder broke into their Ohio home and shot his wife while he slept—but investigators said the physical and digital evidence told a different story. We reconstruct Caleb's account of the Ashley Flynn murder against the damaged garage door, missing 9mm handgun, Apple Watch, AirPods, 911 call and pol...

Hours before Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head in her Ohio home, her husband, Caleb Flynn, was secretly messaging his mistress, Alleigha Botner: "February 16th. Day I'll never forget." "You're about to be free." "I choose you." We break down the Caleb Flynn affair, more than 100,000 messages between Caleb and Alleigha, their disturbing conversations about Ashley dying, and the escalating rel...

Plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was accused of murdering attorney Steven Cozzi, whose body has never been found. Then Kosowski made an extraordinary decision: he would represent himself in his own first-degree murder trial. There is no body. No autopsy. No eyewitness to Steven's killing. And no definitively identified murder weapon. So how do you prove a murder happened at all? In Part 2 of the To...

Florida plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was locked in a bitter legal battle when attorney Steven Cozzi disappeared from his law firm — leaving behind his phone, wallet, keys, and a bathroom covered in blood. Investigators say the man responsible was Kosowski, who had been locked in a civil lawsuit against Cozzi's clients. But what police uncovered after Steven disappeared went far beyond a courtro...

A fake delivery driver. A fake church member. A fake Guinness World Records rep. A fake raffle. An AI deepfake. According to Bricks & Minifigs, these weren't just YouTube stunts—they were pieces of an alleged racketeering enterprise. In Part 2, we dig into BAM's 95-page lawsuit against Reckless Ben, the RICO allegations, the arrests and protective order, disputed claims about police conduct, the v...

In an attempt to help his dad sell his valuable Star Wars LEGO collection, Bryan Mansell places them on consignment with his local Bricks & Minifigs store. The store changes hands. And somewhere along the way, a huge portion of the collection becomes impossible to account for. Enter YouTuber Reckless Ben. What starts as an attempt to help a family recover their LEGO quickly turns into fake busines...

TW: Child Murder Part 2 picks up exactly where we left Jessica. What happened that night — and everything she did afterward — would take her all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and raise a question most people assume they already know the answer to: do police actually have to protect you, even when you have a court order in hand? Nikita — an attorney herself — takes us through how the Court got...

Jessica Gonzales did everything the system told her to do. She got a restraining order against her estranged husband. Colorado law said police had to enforce it — the word "shall" was written right into the statute. So when her three daughters went missing on the night of June 22, 1999, Jessica called Castle Rock police. And called them again. And again — nine times over the course of ten hours, s...

By 2024, Mica Miller was leaving her marriage. She was documenting what she said was happening to her, working with an attorney, seeking legal protection—and telling friends she was afraid. Then, on April 27, Mica called 911 from a state park in North Carolina. Hours later, she was dead. In Part 2 of our coverage of Death of a Pastor's Wife , we walk through Mica's final weeks, the day of her deat...

Mica Miller was 13 when she first met John-Paul "JP" Miller—the pastor who would eventually become her husband. Long before their relationship became romantic, JP had already become her pastor, mentor, trusted adult, and spiritual authority. In Part 1 of our coverage of Netflix's Death of a Pastor's Wife , we trace their relationship from its beginning through the disturbing allegations about what...

In Part 2 of our coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial, we hear from Lindsay's family, the hospital chaplain who spent hundreds of hours with her after the deaths of her children, and Dr. Phillip Resnick—a nationally recognized forensic psychiatrist and expert on filicide who evaluated Lindsay and concluded she was not criminally responsible. Then the Commonwealth calls three psychiatric experts of...

For weeks, the Commonwealth built its case against Lindsay Clancy. But as witness after witness took the stand, some of the testimony began to complicate the story prosecutors had laid out for the jury. In Part 1 of our coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial, Tyrella walks Nikita—who hasn't been following the trial day-to-day—through the Commonwealth's case from opening statements through the end of...

For years, Duane "Keffe D" Davis publicly told versions of the story of Tupac Shakur's murder—in interviews, a documentary, and even his own memoir. Now those statements are at the center of the prosecution's case against him. But Keffe D's defense has a pretty unusual response: you can't believe him because he's "full of crap." In Part 2, we break down the opening statements in Keffe D's murder t...

Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was shot and killed on the Las Vegas Strip, a man is finally on trial for his murder. On September 7, 1996, Tupac and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight were leaving the Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas when a white Cadillac pulled alongside their BMW and someone opened fire. Tupac was hit four times. Six days later, he died at just 25 years old. For decades, the...

In the weeks before Lauren McCluskey was murdered, the danger wasn't invisible. The stalking. The lies. The escalating threats. The extortion. The repeated contact after the relationship ended. Lauren reported what was happening, asked for help, and kept trying to protect herself. So if the signs were already there, why wasn't anyone able to recognize what they meant? In Part 2, we step back from...

When 21-year-old University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey ended a brief relationship, she had good reason to believe she'd caught the warning signs early. The man she'd been dating had lied about his name, his age, and his criminal history. Lauren ended the relationship immediately. But he didn't leave her alone. What followed was a terrifying escalation of stalking, harassment, extortion, and...

After researching dozens of studies, court decisions, and primary sources, we discovered the answer wasn't nearly as simple as we expected. Do men receive more justice than women? Are women taken less seriously? Or are different myths shaping how we perceive different victims? In Part 2, we examine what the research actually says about victim credibility, gender stereotypes, reporting, prosecution...

A Facebook post comparing the murder of Calum Simpson to violence against women raised a question we couldn't stop thinking about: Do we treat violence against women differently than violence against men? At first, the answer seemed obvious. Then we started reading the court records. In this episode, we tell Calum Simpson's story—from the night he met two strangers to the evidence presented in cou...

Michelle Hadley spent 88 days in jail waiting to stand trial. Then the evidence changed everything. In Part 2, we follow the digital trail that unraveled the prosecution's case and exposed an elaborate web of fake accounts, fabricated messages, and deception hiding in plain sight. But this isn't just a story about catfishing. It's about confirmation bias, tunnel vision, and what happens when inves...

When Angela Diaz tells police she's being stalked, terrorized, and targeted through a series of increasingly disturbing messages, the evidence seems to point in one direction. Michelle Hadley. Ian Diaz's ex-girlfriend. But as investigators build their case, one question keeps getting harder to answer: Who is Lilith? In Part 1, we trace the bizarre campaign of emails, fake identities, and escalatin...

By the time investigators accused Rajesh and Nupur Talwar of killing their daughter Aarushi and Hemraj Banjade, the case had already moved through multiple suspects, disputed forensic evidence, and competing theories of what happened inside the family's Noida home. In Part 2 of the Aarushi Talwar case, Tyrella and Nikita examine the evidence used against the Talwars, including the golf club and ku...

In 2008, 13-year-old Aarushi Talwar was found dead inside her family's home in Noida, India. Within hours, police had named the family's missing housekeeper, Hemraj Banjade, as their prime suspect. There was one enormous problem: they hadn't searched the entire property. Tyrella and Nikita walk through the first 24 hours of the Aarushi Talwar case — the locked bedroom, the family's nightly routine...

I'm launching something new: Tyrella Off the Record. If This Feels Criminal is where we slow down, dig deep, and ask the bigger questions, Tyrella Off the Record is where I'll help you keep up with true crime as it's happening.  Ya'll know I'm following these cases like a hawk and I figured why not talk about them with you?!? Hearings. Trials. New filings. Breaking case developments. I'm following...

After nearly six years, Nikita Hand finally walked into a Dublin courtroom and faced Conor McGregor. In Part 2, we break down the 12-day civil trial: Hand's testimony, McGregor's claim that their encounter was consensual, the CCTV footage the defense said undermined her story, the medical and physical evidence presented to the jury, and the strategies used to challenge Hand's credibility. Then, af...

In 2018, Nikita Hand accused Conor McGregor of raping her in a Dublin hotel. Prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges—but six years later, Hand took McGregor to civil court. The medical evidence documented extensive injuries. McGregor's DNA placed him at the scene. But prosecutors ultimately declined to bring criminal charges. Nikita Hand didn't stop there. In Part 1, we walk through what ha...