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True Crime Obsessed
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The true crime podcast YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE. We recap your favorite true crime documentaries with humor, sass, and heart. FROM VULTURE: "It’s not wrong to laugh when you’re listening to a true-crime podcast. Or at least I hope it isn’t, because if almost crashing my car while listening to True Crime Obsessed is wrong, I don’t want to be right." Hear our take on "Abducted in Plain Sight," "The Ted Bundy Tapes," "Dirty John: The Dirty Truth" and so many more.
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True Crime Obsessed97: Betting On Zero
HERBA LIFE! Ever heard of it? For some, it's just a health food company. For others, it's a Pyramid scheme--a company that preys on the poor to keep it's…
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Patreon Bonus Episode: The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann Episode 1
In May of 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann took their family on vacation to the resort town of Praia De Luz, Portugal. On the evening of evening of May 3, their…
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96: The Cheshire Murders
In the quiet suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, Jennifer Petit and her two young daughters were killed in a horrific home invasion; husband and father William…
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95: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer was a rising star in the Democratic Party...But then he got caught having sex with escorts. Client 9, as you might imagine, introduces us to a…
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94: HBO's I Love You Now Die Part 2: The Defense
In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy died by suicide in his car at a parking lot in Fairhaven, Mass. Police soon discovered a series of alarming text messages…
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93: HBO's I Love You, Now Die: Part 1
In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy died by suicide in his car at a parking lot in Fairhaven, Mass. Police soon discovered a series of alarming text messages…
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92: All The Queen's Horses
FIFTY. THREE. MILLION. DOLLARS. That's how much cash Rita Crundwell stole FROM HER CITY GOVERNMENT JOB without anyone noticing. She bought houses, and horses…
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91: The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story
In the 1990s, boy bands were king. Groups like N'SYNC and the Backstreet Boys were international sensations. But that wasn't the whole story. To tell the whole…
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90: Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
On July 10, 2015, a 28 year-old black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over in a small Texas town for failing to use a turn signal when she changed lanes…
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89: Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
On October 7, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay. It was one of the…
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88: Oklahoma City
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton…
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PATREON BONUS EPISODE: "Lorena" Episode 1
FAM! This week, as a fun little bonus, we wanted to share with you one of our FAVORITE episodes from our Patreon feed! We think that our coverage of "Lorena"…
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87: Upstairs Inferno
On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a New Orleans gay bar. The result was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history--Thirty-two…
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86: Behind The Curve
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT? Turns out, there are LOTS of people believe it is. Is their evidence compelling? Not really, but their conspiracies run…
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Tabloid
FAM! QUEEN GILLIAN GOT SUPER SICK THIS WEEK AND SO WE HAD TO RUN A CLASSIC EPISODE! First please note that, unbeknownst to us before we picked this episode to…
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85: The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 2
This episode covers episodes 4 - 6 of the Oxygen series. For part 1, covering episodes 1 - 3, go here. Or listen on Spotify here. It's the most famous--and…
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84: The Disappearance of Maura Murray Part 1
This episode covers episodes 1 - 3 of the Oxygen series. It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On February 9, 2004…
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83: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna…
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The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson
Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD…
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82: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billionaire…
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81: Studio 54
GAYS! DRAG QUEENS! LIZA! DISCO! DRUGS! TAX FRAUD! DO I REALLY NEED TO GO ON? Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the…
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80: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 4: Time is the Killer
This episode covers episode 4 of the HBO series. For our episode on Part 1 go here For our episode on Part 2 go here For our episode on Part 3 go here In Part…
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79: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 3: Justice Is Arbitrary
This episode covers part 3 of the 4-part HBO series. For our take on Part 1, go here! For our take on Part 2, go here! And stay tuned till THE VERY END of the…
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78: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 2: In Between The Truth
This episode covers part 2 of the 4-part HBO series. For Part 1, go here! In part 2, Private investigators attempt to recreate circumstances at the crime…
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77: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 1: Forbidden Love
Directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg, The Case Against Adnan Syed will explore the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high…
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76: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 2
This podcast episode covers episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix series. Listen to Part 1 (covering episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series) HERE. In this episode, Ted…
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PATREON BONUS EPISODE! Making A Murderer Season 2, Ep. 1 "Number 18"
SURPRISE! this week we wanted to do something we’ve never done before—give every member of the TCO fam access to one of our Patreon full bonus episodes. We…
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75: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 1
This podcast episode covers episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series. On the 30th anniversary of his Florida execution, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY…
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Mommy Dead and Dearest
It's Daisy's school vacation week, so Patrick is on full time dad duty! We'll be back with a brand new episode next week covering episodes 1 & 2 of Netflix's…
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74: Grizzly Man
For 13 summers, Timothy Tredwell journeyed into the Alaskan wilderness to spend four months living among the grizzly bears. Though Treadwell believed that he…
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73: Fyre Fraud
The Fyre Festival was the defining scam of the millennial generation. Marketing for the 2017 music event went viral with the help of rapper Ja Rule, instagram…
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72: Three Identical Strangers
Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families. Their…
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71: 51 Birch Street
Mike and Mina Block were married for 54 years. Friends, family, and neighbors all thought they had the perfect marriage. But then Minna died suddenly, and…
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70: Hot Coffee
Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee…
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69: Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple
In the summer of 1977, Jim Jones, leader of The Peoples Temple, moved nearly 1,000 of his followers to a plot of land in Guyana, South America. Less than a…
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Beware The Slenderman
BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN tells the story of the internet's elusive Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier…
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68: Oswald's Ghost (Was the JFK Assassination a Conspiracy?)
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, was assassinated in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people--at least 55 of whom…
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67: Abducted in Plain Sight
On October 17, 1974, 12 year old Jan Broberg was kidnapped by her next door neighbor and parents’ best friend—a man they all loving called “B.” B, unbeknownst…
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66: Dream / Killer
EVERYONE BE COOL, KATHLEEN ZELNER IS IN THE HOUSE!!! Before she became a household name with her work on the Steven Avery case in season 2 of "Making A…
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65: The Case of the Cannibal Cop
In 2015, NYC Police Officer Gilberto Valle was convicted of conspiring to kidnap and eat young women. YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT: KIDNAP AND EAT. Valle argued it…
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64: Whitey: United States of America vs. James J. Bulger
THIS EPISODE IS RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES, YOU GUYS! In 2013, James (Whitey) Bulger, the South Boston mobster, was captured after 16 years on the lam. He was…
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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
This week we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes! A decade after making the documentary film “Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer” about…
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63: My Amityville Horror
In 1975, the Lutz family moved into the old house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amittyville, New York. The house was beautiful, nestled in the heart of an affluent…
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62: Killer Legends
Welp, throw “Killer Legends” on the stacks of Halloween-ey docs we’ve hated! Having skimmed the Wikipedia pages and doing a combined 14 minutes of research…
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61: Demon House
There’s no way around it, you guys: There is definitely a PORTAL TO HELL under the basement stairs in a crappy rental house in Gary, Indiana. It’s definitely…
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"Tower": Commercial-Free Rebroadcast WITH EXTRAS!
YOU GUYS!!! A few weeks ago we got the chance to sit down with "Tower" director Keith Maitland for full interview about the film. That interview is now live on…
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60: Hell House
You guys, we've covered A LOT of garbage on this podcast, but somehow THIS insanity is the first one to warrant an actual trigger warning. So here's the head…
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59: The Devil and Father Amroth
First things first, you guys…WE HAAAAAAAAAAAATED THIS MOVIE….which is good news because we have SHIT. TO. SAY. In the mood for a great movie about a suuuuper…
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58: The Galapagos Affair
In 1930 4 SUPER grumpy people moved to the Galapagos Islands’ most deserted, most isolated, most remote outpost (that is Patrick you’re hearing having the…
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57: A Murder in the Park
Look, the specifics of this story are confusing AF. BUT at the heart of it, we’re dealing with a murder, a wrongful conviction, a false confession and A…
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56: Weiner
We hate to insult garbage by calling Anthony Weiner garbage...but we can't think of another word. DING! Anthony Weiner did a lot for the people of New York as…
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55: Wild Wild Country Part 3 (Covering Episodes 5 & 6 of the Netflix Series)
YOU GUYS! It’s our final installment and all our friends are here! Boring Jane! The Lawyer Who Can’t Stop Crying! Bagwan(shhhhhhh)! And SHEELA! Hey Girl!…
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54: Wild Wild Country Part 2 (Covering Episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix Series)
The lawyer is still crying, The Australian is still boring, Sheela is still not to be messed with. This episode, which covers episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix…
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53: Wild Wild Country Part 1 (Covering Episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix Series)
YOU GUYS!! MAJOR LIVE SHOW NEWS! CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND TICKETS!! Another bonkers cult-doc, you guys! Attend the tale of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a guru who…
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52: The Central Park Five
This one has it all, you guys: Garbage Cops, False Convictions, And An 80s Home Perm Gone Seriously Wrong (oh AND two IDIOTS riding a TANDEM BIKE in CENTRAL…
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51: The Dog
The working title for this one was: “Three Gays Rob a Bank”. And we have an idea for the sitcom version. In August 1972, John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a…
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50: Evil Genius Part 2 (Covering episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix Series)
WHY. ARE. THEY. ALL. HOARDERS? Heads Up! This episode of TCO covers parts 3 & 4 of the Netflix series. To hear our coverage of the first two episodes of the…
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49: Evil Genius Part 1 (Covering Episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix Series)
Let us paint a picture: The weirdest bank robbery in history, a collar-bomb, a cane-gun, three dead men, and two homes so hoard-ey they required hazmat suits…
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48: The Times of Harvey Milk
There are no two ways about it, Harvey Milk looked great in a T-Shirt. Happy Pride, everyone! Let's talk about some gay stuff! (don't worry, this one is super…
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47: Glory Daze
Happy Pride Month, Everyone! Now let's talk about a gay club kid who was super mean to people, became addicted to drugs, and murdered AND DISMEMBERED a fellow…