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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 Obsessed274: Cheerleader On Trial
High school senior Skylar Richardson told no one of her pregnancy. But when a newborn's body was found buried in the family's backyard, Skylar was charged with…
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273: The Most Hated Man on the Internet
In 2010, a 24 year old man named Hunter Moore launched the website IsAnyoneUp.com. The site was built to allow people to anonymously post nude photos of other…
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272: Murder At The Mall
In the early hours of December 20, 1979, the body of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was found in her car in the parking lot of a mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She…
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271: No Good Deed: A Crowdfunding Holiday Heist
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS! In 2017, just before the holidays, Mark D'Amico and Kate McClure started a Gofundme for veteran named Johnny who was…
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270: Killing Momma
On June 14, 2015, Sheriff's deputies found the body of Dee Dee Blanchard facedown in her bedroom in the home she shared with her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard…
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269: Nail Bomber: Manhunt
Over the course of three weekends in 1999, homemade nail bombs were detonated in three London neighborhoods. Each bomb contained 1500 four-inch nails, loaded…
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268: Murder In A Wisconsin Field
When a beautiful young teacher was found shot to death in a Wisconsin farm field, police quickly arrested her live-in boyfriend who had waited 18 hours to…
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267: Rich & Shameless: Girls Gone Wild
Remember "Girls Gone Wild"? If you're a kid of the 90s or early 00s, the TV ads were practically a staple of your childhood. But it probably won't shock you to…
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266: Murder on the Gulf Coast
When the body of former policewoman Taylor Wright was discovered on a remote Pensacola farm, detectives had a lineup of suspects to investigate - her ex-…
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265: The Martha Mitchell Effect
LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK. Martha Mitchell was one of the most outspoken women in Washington. And when she learned of the biggest crime ever committed by a…
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264: Murder in the Kentucky Hills
Shayna Hubers called 911 to report she had killed her boyfriend in self-defense after he attacked her. But investigators soon learned he was planning a date…
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263: The Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much
The is one of our funniest episodes in a minute! Fam, get ready to meet Ted Slauson, a math teacher who becomes OBSESSED with the gameshow The Price is Right…
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262: Murder Under The Blue Moon: The Smith Family Massacre
On July 31, 2015, the bodies of Voncile Smith and two of her adult sons were found in her Pensacola home. They had been brutally murdered days before. The…
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261: Scream: The True Story (aka The Murders of The Gainesville Ripper)
"Scream" is everyone's favorite scary movie, but did you know it's based on a true story? It's inspired by the life and murders of Danny Rolling, aka "The…
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260: The Doctor is Dead: The Murder of Teresa Sievers
On June 28, 2015, Teresa Sievers, a popular doctor and mother of two young children, was found murdered in her Florida kitchen. The house wasn't ransacked and…
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259: The Lizzie Borden Murders
The Borden murders are the most infamous double murders in American History, but there's more to the story than you've been told. On the morning of August 4…
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Bad Vegan
Sarma Melngailis is a beautiful and successful restauranter in New York City. Her raw vegan restaurant attracts celebrities and influencers and owning the…
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258: The Curse of the Von Dutch: Part 2
As the Von Dutch brand climbs to the pinnacle of trendy fashion, behind the scenes, things are getting messy. And a murder by one of the brand's founders…
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257: The Curse of the Von Dutch
Ahhh, the glory days of the early 2000s. Britney Spears was on the radio (remember THE RADIO?), "Friends" was in its glory days, and everyone was talking about…
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256: Murder In Ypsilanti: Keith Morrison Investigates
In 2018, a reporter in Ypsilanti, Michigan received a mysterious anonymous email: a woman named Martha Agnu was dead. When the reporter looked into the death…
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255: Selena: The Murder of an Icon (From Reel Crime Story)
By age 23, Selena was an international icon. She'd won Grammys, was selling out stadiums, and recording chart topping albums in English and Spanish. Then on…
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254: The Mysterious Death of Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem was one of the most famous people in America--the voice of a generation. His death in 2014 shrouded in mystery. His wife says his children murdered…
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253: White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
Were you cool enough to wear Abercrombie? Did you wait in line to be granted the opportunity to walk past a shirtless teenaged model into a store with too-loud…
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252: The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster
In the 1980s and 90s, a monster known as The Green River Killer stalked the people of the Pacific northwest. He had one goal in mind: to be the most prolific…
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251: Erin Brockovich: The Real Rebel
THEY'RE CALLED BOOBS ED! This week we're getting the real story behind the Oscar winning smash hit film "Erin Brockovich". Erin herself is here to walk us…
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250: Dirty Tricks
Lotan Fisher is the best bridge player in the world. Yes, the card game bridge. BUT THIS GUY IS REALLY GOOD. He's making $500K PER YEAR, hanging out with…
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249: The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler: Part 2
Citizen detectives make the shocking discovery that there may be as many as THREE ACTIVE SERIAL KILLERS on the loose in Chicago. As women continue to die, a…
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248: The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler
In Chicago, a serial killer is on the loose. Right now. As you're reading this. And nobody seems able to stop him. He has left dozes of dead women in his wake…
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247: Truth And Lies: Monica & Bill
He was the most powerful man in the world. She was 22 year old intern who caught his eye. It was the scandal threatened to ruin them both and to drag the…
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246: Murder: The Last Days of Phil Hartman
When Saturday Night Live star Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife, who then took her own life, the world was shocked. The couple seemed to have it all--fame…
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245: Trust No One: The Hunt For The Crypto King
30 year old Gerald Cotton is dead. Or is he? As the young founder of a a company that trades Bitcoin, he had $136 Million of investor's money when he "died."…
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Wild Crime
Harold Henthorn had two wives, 18 years apart. Both women died mysteriously and both times, Harold was the only witness. ALSO each death resulted in massive…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Amanda Villegas on Getting Free
Amanda was a single mother –struggling financially and working tirelessly– when she came home one day in 2011 with her daughter and turned on the news. A…
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244: The Housewife & The Shah Shocker
Real Housewife of Salt Lake City breakout star Jenn Shah is a lot of things: Beautiful, stylish, slightly unhinged, rich--OK, that last one maybe not. Nobody…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Maggie Freleng on Murder in Alliance
Maggie Freleng is one badass journalist. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and producer, she gravitates toward telling the stories of underdogs –…
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243: Anna Delvey: The SinFluencer of SoHo
In 2013, 21 year old Anna Delvey arrived in New York City. She became a fixture at the trendiest nightclubs, she lived at the fanciest hotels. She was believed…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Alexandria Goddard on Dismantling Rape Culture
August 11th, 2012 was a murky night for many in the town of Steubenville, Ohio as local high school students scattered themselves among a handful of parties…
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242: The Last Call Killer
In the early 1990s, fear and rumor swirled through New York’s LGBTQ community about a serial killer who targeted inebriated men leaving the city’s gay bars…
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The Staircase
On the evening of December 9, 2001, 48-year-old Kathleen Peterson died on a back staircase in her North Carolina home. Her husband Michael claims that she fell…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Lise Lotte-Lublin on Confronting Bill Cosby
Lise Lotte-Lublin didn’t recall being sexually assaulted until 20 years after the fact while watching an interview with a famous model whose story seemed…
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241: The Lost Leonardo
In 2005 a painting appeared in a gallery in New Orleans. it was believed to be from the 1500s and painted by a student of Leonardo Da Vinci. It was purchased…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Roberta Blevins on Living & Leaving LulaRoe
When Roberta Blevins casually bought a pair of buttery soft, printed leggings from a fellow young mom on Facebook, she never could have imagined the journey…
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240: Vanished in New Canaan: The Murder of Jennifer Dulos
Jennifer Dulos seems to have a picture perfect life in affluent New Canaan, Connecticut. So when she fails to pick her kids up from school one afternoon, her…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Anna Vasquez on the San Antonio Four
In the late ‘90s, Anna Vasquez, Cassandra Rivera, Elizabeth Ramirez, and Kristie Mayhugh all received phone calls accusing their lesbian friend group of a…
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The Delphi Murders
On February 14, 2017, the bodies of 14 year old Abigail Williams and 13 year old Liberty German were found near the Manon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Gemma Hoskins on the Murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik
Gemma Hoskins remembers high school fondly, thanks in large part to her favorite teacher Sister Cathy Cesnik. So, when the beloved nun disappeared one November…
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239: Pharma Bro
Martin Shkreli IS THE FREAKING WORST! The 38-year-old financial entrepreneur and pharmaceutical tycoon from Brooklyn was dubbed "the most hated man in America"…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Rabia Chaudry on the Case Against Adnan Syed
Long before the hit podcast Serial spurred the world into podcast-listening, Rabia Chaudry was on a mission. The 1999 murder of a high school student named Hae…
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238: Tinder Swindler: Part 2
It's late. You've had a glass of wine. You're young and hopeful and looking for love. So you start swiping through Tinder. You come across Simon Leviev, and…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Connie Walker on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
Connie Walker is a journalist on a mission to tell the stories of missing & murdered indigenous women in Canada. So, when a band of fellow Cree siblings…
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237: Tinder Swindler
It's late. You've had a glass of wine. You're young and hopeful and looking for love. So you start swiping through Tinder. You come across Simon Leviev, and…
True Crime ObsessedLet The Women: Lorri Davis on The West Memphis Three
One rainy New York night in 1996, Lorri Davis went to see a movie. It was a documentary about the murder of three cub scouts found in the woods and the three…
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236: Memories of A Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes
On a cold day in 1983, a plumber was called to an apartment building in the Cranley Gardens neighborhood of North London. The building drains were clogged. And…
True Crime ObsessedIntroducing: Let The Women Do The Work with Gillian Pensavalle
This show has a bone to pick true crime podcasts. Where are all the women’s perspectives? The detectives, the witnesses, the movers and shakers of any case are…
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The Curse of the Chippendales
LET'S OBJECTIFY SOME MEN FOR A CHANGE! The Chippendale all-male review (read STRIP SHOW) was the hottest shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. And it was…
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235: Murdered and Missing in Montana
Three young women vanish months apart from each other. Massive searches ensue for each. Days or weeks later, each one is found dead in the location they were…
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234: The Murder of Gabby Petito: Truth, Lies, and Social Media
On July 2, 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her fiance, 23-year-old Briann Laundrie took off on the adventure of a lifetime. Driving cross country on a…
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233: The Murdaugh Murders
On the evening of June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh, a member of one of the most powerful families in South Carolina, came home to a brutal scene: The bodies of his…
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232: The Abduction and Murder of Kristin Smart (From Dateline)
On May 25, 1996, 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart went to an off-campus party. Around 2 am, she was last seen being helped back to her dorm by another…
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231: Keep Sweet (The Cult of the FLDS and Warren Jeffs)
DON’T WORRY, YOU ONLY HAVE TO HEAR WARREN JEFFS SING ONCE. Look, tick tock, it’s cult o’clock. We’re back with the FLDS (the culty fundementialist sect of the…