Halloween Special: The Cleveland Torso Killer, with Richard MacLean Smith from Unexplained
Murder always makes an imprint in the lives of the people around it. But when a murder goes unsolved—or multiple murders—the imprint is even...
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True Crime Campfire
Join hosts Katie and Whitney for a different kind of true crime podcast. You can start with season 1, The Puppet Master and the Prince of Darkness, a deep dive into the most bizarre murder c...
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20 of 414 episodesHeroes and Villains: The Murder of Bob McClancy
Most of us have ordinary lives, with all its joys and heartbreaks, and that’s more than enough…but not for everyone. There will always be so...
Foreign Substance: A Grab Bag of Poisoners
There are few crueler ways to harm someone than through poison. It turns your own body against you, making you a prisoner in a failing shell...
The Misfit: Serial Husband John Smith Pt 2 (FINALE)
In last week’s episode, we met John Smith, a lying, manipulative weirdo who almost certainly had killed his missing second wife, Fran. Towar...
The Misfit: Serial Husband John Smith, Pt 1
If there’s one old folktale that finds a frequent echo in true crime stories, it has to be ‘Bluebeard,’ about a man who marries and then mur...
The Bad Son: The Charles Family Murders
All of us have some tensions and frustrations with our families, and that’s fine. It’s just normal human nature. But for some people, these...
Ancient Evil: A Grab Bag of Real Life Monsters
Do you think people will still be talking about Scott Peterson or Chris Watts in a hundred years? How about five-hundred? Probably not, righ...
Respawn: A Grab Bag of Deaths That Weren't What They Seemed
Death is not always the end. We’re not stepping into any kind of spiritual territory here, though, we’re talking about the very earthly fact...
Real People. Real Crimes. | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT
Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love going down internet rabbit holes,...
Resistance: The Life of Spy Krystyna Skarbek Pt 2
Last week, we introduced you to Krystyna Skarbek, a daring resistance agent who smuggled valuable intelligence and thousands of refugees out...
Resistance: Spy Krystyna Skarbek Pt 1
James Belushi once wrote, “Heroes aren’t born, they’re cornered.” It’s often extraordinary, and sometimes horrifying, circumstance that comp...
Book Smart: The Crimes of William Coday
You can’t judge a book by its cover. There’s no shortage of gold-hearted biker dudes and wicked ministers—you can’t really know what someone...
Changeling: The Crimes of Frederic Bourdin
In Irish and other European folklore, a changeling is a fae child that is swapped with a human baby to be raised by humans. Sometimes it’s b...
Cruelest Cut: The Murder of Elaine O'Hara
In August of 2012, the family of an Irish woman named Elaine O’Hara reported her missing. Investigators located her car near the seashore, b...
The Heir: The Murder of Ben Novack Jr. Pt 2
In Part One of this story last week, we followed the rise to riches of hotel owner Ben Novack Sr. and his glamorous model wife Bernice, and...
The Heir: The Murder of Ben Novack, Pt 1
It has sometimes been said that great wealth is a curse—usually by people who have never had to go hungry, but there is something to it. The...
The Princess and the Poisoner: The Crimes of Arthur Waite
There are some crimes and schemes that must be just about as old as humanity itself. I’m sure handsome scammers have been wooing the daughte...
Freefall: The Crimes of Emile Cilliers
In his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde tells the story of a handsome young man who makes a deal with the Devil—his soul, in ex...
The Secret Life: The Murder of Stefanie Rabinowitz
It’s almost impossible to know someone perfectly. Everyone has their private thoughts and hidden moments from their past, and this is usuall...
Creep: Serial Killer Wayne Nance Pt 2
When we left you at the end of part 1, Wayne Nance had begun his career as a serial killer with the murder of Donna Pounds. As much as he tr...