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Bad Acts: A True Crime Podcast
Twisted true crime tales of dark deeds and despicable people. New episodes every Thursday. Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus episodes here: https://www.patreon.com/badactspod
Episodes
- Bad Acts: A True Crime Podcast
Ep. 299 — The Murder of Constance Dunn
Send us Fan Mail In 1965, 24-year-old Constance Dunn let a vacuum salesman into her house for a demonstration. Two days later, her milkman arrived to find her…
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Ep. 298 — The Murders of Elaine & Jennifer Bunyard
Send us Fan Mail 28-year-old Elaine Bunyard was pregnant with her second daughter, due any day, when her 7-year-old found her brutally murdered in their home’s…
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Ep. 297 — The Murder of Runyleidy “Runy” Medina-Pacheco
Send us Fan Mail Runy Medina-Pacheco disappeared from her Orlando, Florida, apartment on Christmas Day in 2022. At first, her roommate Gisselle…
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Ep. 296 — The Murder of Jerri Winters
Send us Fan Mail Courtney “Jerri” Winters disappeared in December 2020, but no one reported her missing. Seven months later, her mutilated body was found under…
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Ep. 295 — The Plot to Kill Yvonne Stern
Send us Fan Mail In 2010, three different hitmen tried to murder Houston socialite Yvonne Stern. Police had no idea who was trying to kill her, and each…
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Ep. 294 — The Murder of Morgan Bauer
Send us Fan Mail In February 2016, 19-year-old Morgan Bauer moved to the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Two weeks later, she disappeared. Seven years later…
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Ep. 293 — The Murder of Jaren Lockhart
Send us Fan Mail In 2012, 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart disappeared from the New Orleans French Quarter. Hours later, her dismembered remains started washing up…
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Ep. 292 — The Mad Slasher of Ontario, Canada
Send us Fan Mail For two years, Christian Herbert Magee terrorized women in the area around Strathroy and London, Ontario. He murdered three women and…
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Ep. 291 — “Do You Party?”: A Very Stupid Hitman Plot
Send us Fan Mail In 2004, Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Gladue was arrested for making terroristic threats. While in jail, he came up with multiple stupid ideas…
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Ep. 290 The Murder of Jacqueline Duncan
Send us Fan Mail 24-year-old Jacqueline Duncan was watching TV in her apartment with her 3-year-old son tucked into bed when her neighbor, Rodney Warndahl…
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Ep. 289 — The Multiple Lives of Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff, Part Two
Send us Fan Mail At 20-years-old, Kenneth McDuff committed a brutal triple murder that earned him the death penalty. But the fates were on his side, and his…
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Ep. 288 — The Multiple Lives of Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff, Part One
Send us Fan Mail At 20-years-old, Kenneth McDuff committed a brutal triple murder that earned him the death penalty. But the fates were on his side, and his…
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Ep. 287 — The Murder of Ashley Young
Send us Fan Mail 31-year-old Ashley Young never returned from meeting up with an old friend. Days later, her torso was discovered in a basement. Patreon…
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Ep. 286 — The Murder of Scott MacFarland
Send us Fan Mail In October 2023, Richard “Scott” MacFarland invited a friend of his to live with him. Meghan Macklin had fallen on hard times, and she needed…
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Ep. 285 — Apt 19A: The Murder of Nadia Vitels
Send us Fan Mail In 2024, Nadia Vitels was finally getting a chance to focus on herself after years of caregiving. She planned to move into a luxury NYC…
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Ep. 284 — The First Fetal Abduction by Caesarian: The Murder of Margaret Sweeney
Send us Fan Mail In 1974, 26-year-old Margaret Sweeney was expecting her fourth baby. When she met Winifred Ransom, she thought she’d made a new friend. But…
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Ep. 283 – The Bolduc Family Murders
Send us Fan Mail In 2008, firefighters responded to a fire at the Bolduc home to find three family members murdered, including parents, Carol and Christopher…
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Ep. 282 — The Murder of Mel Kernena Cotton
Send us Fan Mail 31-year-old Mel Cotton helped her friend escape a violent relationship. About two weeks later, her sister arrived to babysit Mel’s son to find…
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Ep. 281 – The Red Riding Hood Murders: Female Serial Killer Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi
Send us Fan Mail Unlike most female serial killers, 20-year-old Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi was a lust killer who targeted young girls. She committed five murders…
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Ep. 280 - Live From Comicpalooza! Killer Chatbot?: A.I. & The Murder of Margaux Whittemore
Send us Fan Mail (Audio is pretty good!) In February 2025, 32-year-old Margaux Whittemore traveled to Maine with her husband, Samuel, to visit her…
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Ep. 279 — “I Love You to Death:” The Worst (But Funniest) Murder Conspiracy Ever
Send us Fan Mail This week, we talk about the true story of Tony & Frances Toto, whose story hit the big screen in 1990 after Frances tried to murder Tony 5…
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Ep. 278 — Ray the Ripper: A Houston Spree Killing
Send us Fan Mail Over an 8-day period in April 2002, 28-year-old Ray McArthur Freeney preyed on sex workers on Houston, TX’s infamous Bissonnet Strip. He…
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Ep. 277 — The Murder of Michelle Shadbolt
Send us Fan Mail On February 14, 1987, Michelle Shadbolt’s stepmother found her brutally murdered in her living room. Everyone suspected Michelle’s estranged…
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Ep. 276 — Amelia & The Devil: A Diabolical Murder Case
Send us Fan Mail In 2011, Amelia Espinoza was raising her son, 18-year-old Moises Meraz-Espinoza, in Los Angeles. This time, Satan really was waiting in the…
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Ep. 275 — The “Satanic Cult” Murders You’ve Never Heard About, Pt. 3
Send us Fan Mail In 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham murdered three people and wounded seven in a short crime spree that began at home and ended at Pearl High…
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Ep. 274 — The “Satanic Cult” Murders You’ve Never Heard About, Pt. 2
Send us Fan Mail In 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham murdered three people and wounded seven in a short crime spree that began at home and ended at Pearl High…
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Ep. 273 — The “Satanic Cult” Murders You’ve Never Heard About, Pt. 1
Send us Fan Mail In 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham murdered three people and wounded seven in a short crime spree that began at home and ended at Pearl High…
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Ep. 272 — The Murder of Paycin Kritlow
Send us Fan Mail In July 2020, 18-year-old Paycin Kritlow was celebrating his high school graduation with his lifelong friends when he died at the hands of…
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Ep. 271 — The Chinese “Jack the Ripper”
Send us Fan Mail Over 14 years, a depraved madman preyed on the women of Baiyin, China. After 11 murders, the killer suddenly stopped, and investigators feared…
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Ep. 270 — The Murder of Cynthia “Cindy” Capps
Send us Fan Mail In October 2020, Cynthia Capps and her husband Jorge Gonzalez were renting out their extra rooms to make ends meet during the pandemic. One…
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Ep. 269 — The Murder of Gabrielle “Britney” Ujlaky
Send us Fan Mail 16-year-old Britney Ujlaky was a cowgirl with big goals for her future. She seemed unstoppable, but one of her most trusted friends was a…
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Ep. 268 — The Choctaw Three: A Murder that Never Happened
Send us Fan Mail *The most bananas case I’ve covered* In 1999, the tiny town of Butler, Alabama, made national headlines when three intellectually disabled…
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Ep. 267 — Fortune Teller: The Historic Kintzler Murders
Send us Fan Mail In 1877, German immigrants John and Gretchen Kintzler lived in a messy log cabin in Troxelville, Pennsylvania. On Sundays, John told fortunes…
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Ep. 266 — From the Crawl Space: The Murder of Barbara Latiolais
Send us Fan Mail In 2012 Barbara Latiolas hired a local teenager to mow her lawn. That decision led to a pair of killers hiding in her crawl space, waiting for…
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Ep. 265 — “I’m so lonely, guess I’ll murder and dismember you”
Send us Fan Mail In November 2024, 21-year-old Phoenix Spencer-Horn was just starting what should have been a long life. She was living with her boyfriend…
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Ep. 264 — Chicago’s First Execution: The Murder of Lucretia Thompson
Send us Fan Mail In 1840, Lucretia Thompson left for her job as a housekeeper and never returned. Two days later, searchers found her bloody body near a wooded…
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Ep. 263 — The Murder of Jonathan Moyer
Send us Fan Mail In March 2003, 17-year-old Jonathan “Jonnie” Moyer disappeared. Around that same time, two of his best friends, 16-year-old Steva Hagelgans…
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Ep. 262 — The West Nickel Mines School Massacre
Send us Fan Mail In October 2006, a man named Charles Roberts IV invaded a one-room Amish school house and took ten female students hostage. However, he…
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Ep. 261 — The Wise Family Murders
Send us Fan Mail In April 2006, six members of the Wise family suddenly went silent. The family patriarch, Jesse Lee Wise, Sr., who was on a business trip…
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Ep. 260 — Oops! Criminals Caught in the Act
Send us Fan Mail It’s my birthday! Since this episode comes out on my birthday, I wanted to do something fun, so I’ve collected some cases where burglars and…
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Ep. 259 — A Wild West Torture Murder: The Murder of Dr. J.A. Ramsey
Send us Fan Mail Back in 1926, south Texas was still the wild west, and Dr. J.A. Ramsey was a prominent citizen of Mathis, Texas. After a late night call to a…
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Ep. 258 — The Infamous Santa Claus Bank Robbery of 1927
Send us Fan Mail This case is so wild, y’all! It takes place in 1927 in Cisco, Texas, and involves a Santa, a robbery, bounties, a whole town full of people…
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Ep. 257 — The Luna Family Murders
Send us Fan Mail One morning, Patricia Luna opened her door to accept a flower bouquet. Seven hours later, Patricia, her husband Albert, Sr., and two of their…
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Ep. 256 — The Murders of Jennifer & Robbie Tower
Send us Fan Mail In 2023, Jennifer and Robbie Tower welcomed their 21-year-old adopted son back into their home. They’d rescued him from a Ukrainian orphanage…
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Ep. 255 — Hell-House: The Murders of Heike Poike, Lyrik Poike, and Dakota Smith
Send us Fan Mail On September 18, 2015, 50-year-old Heike Poike missed school pickup for her 8-year-old grandson. When police went to check on Heike, they…
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Ep. 254 — How (Not) to Solve Your Problems With a Hitman
Send us Fan Mail Today, we’re talking about a wannabe killer who tried to solve his problems by hiring hitmen. Yes, that’s hitmen plural. He just kept hiring…
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Ep. 253 — “The Boy is Mine”: A Hitman Case
Send us Fan Mail One boss, two coworkers, and an affair that almost ended in murder. At least this lady tried to use the “dark web” instead of that fake hitman…
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Ep. 252: The Psyche of a Serial Killer: H.H. Holmes
Send us Fan Mail In the 1890s, Dr. H.H. Holmes became famous for being America’s 1st Serial Killer, even though he technically wasn’t the first. He’s also…
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Ep. 251: The Psyche of a Serial Killer: Dean Corll
Send us Fan Mail In part one, we’re discussing Houston’s most notorious serial killer, Dean Corll, aka The Candyman or The Candyman Killer. Patreon…
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Ep. 250 — The Kidnapping of Monica De Leon Barba
Send us Fan Mail In 2022, 29-year-old Monica De Leon Barba moved from San Mateo, California, to the city of Tepatitlán in Jalisco, Mexico, to do photography…
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Ep. 249 — The Brom Family Ax Murders
Send us Fan Mail In February 1988, 16-year-old David Brom used an ax to murder his parents Bernard and Paulette, and his siblings Diane and Ricky. Patreon…
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THE LOST PIE EPISODE (a bonus)
Send us Fan Mail Y'all! I realized today that I accidentally posted the wrong audio for episode 191, which was called "You Wanna Piece of Me: The Top Three…
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Ep. 248 — Is Texas Trying to Execute an Innocent Man?
Send us Fan Mail GOOD NEWS: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has issued a stay of execution for Robert Roberson, III. He is still on death row, but at least…
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Ep. 247 — I’m Possessed! The Crimes of Chad Schipper
Send us Fan Mail In 2017, Connie and Larry Van Oosten were sleeping in their bed when a man broke into their home and kidnapped them, sealing them in an…
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Episode 246: The Murder of Janet Renee White
Send us Fan Mail Janet Renee White, who went by Renee, arrived back at her office after lunch just in time to pick up the ringing telephone. But instead of…
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Ep. 245 — The Murder of Ann Prazniak & The Framing of an Innocent Man
Send us Fan Mail In 1998, Ann Prazniak died a slow death, wrapped in a blanket and taped up in her closet. When a woman pointed the finger at Bryan Hooper…
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Ep. 244 – Son, Father, Killer: The Crimes of Leslie Arnold
Send us Fan Mail At 16-years-old, Leslie Arnold murdered his parents, Bill and Opal Arnold, and buried them in the backyard. For two weeks, he went to school…
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Ep. 243 — Kaylee Sawyer & Aundreah Maes Pt. 2: 3 Days on Interstate-5
Send us Fan Mail In this harrowing part 2, Aundreah Maes tries to survive as Edwin Lara adds to his victim/survivor count. Lara also starts to make up a bunch…
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Ep. 242 — Kaylee Sawyer & Aundreah Maes Pt. 1: Two Dark Parking Lots
Send us Fan Mail In July 2016, two young women crossed paths with aspiring serial killer Edwin Lara, kicking off a 3-day crime spree of murder, kidnapping…
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Ep. 241 — Who Needs Enemies with Friends Like These: The Murder of Christina Muse
Send us Fan Mail After visiting her friends and former roommates, 20-year-old Christina Muse disappeared. For four months, she remained missing, but then one…