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Morbidology is a weekly true crime podcast created and hosted by Emily G. Thompson, author of "Unsolved Child Murders," "Cults Uncovered: True Stories of Mind Control and Murder," "Mysteries Uncovered: True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained," and co-author of "Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered." Using investigative research combined with primary audio including 911 calls, interviews and trial testimony, Morbidology takes an in-depth look at some of the world's most heinous ...
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North Shore is a picturesque area on the coast of Sydney in Australia. It is dotted with intimate villages and is worlds away from the hustle and bustle of city life. In 2013, a well-known and well-liked man from North Shore was the victim of a vicious attack. In trying to uncover what had happened to him, a media frenzy focused on his private life…
Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 5, 1970, the day an Air Force building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a young man accused of the crime: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious federal time, Howard went on the run and became one of the longest-running fugitives in U.S. history. As an adult, Nina picked up the trail. What ever ha…
Wellington, Ohio, is a quaint village around 40 miles south-west of Cleveland surrounded by rolling fields. In 2007, it was the scene of a grisly crime that would cause irreversible damage to a well-known and well-loved family and in the aftermath, would reignite the debate over teenagers and violent videogames. SPONSORS - UNIDRAGON: Thank you to U…
A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends. But who is Maria Butina? And who is she working for? As Maria gets closer to the rich and connected she also attracts the attention of the FBI. In the politically charged world of US-Russia relations, …
It was July of 2004 when 21-year-old student, Leigh Matthews, vanished while walking to the parking lot at Bond South Africa University. Before it was even noticed that she was missing, her parents received a very disturbing phone call from somebody claiming that they were holding Leigh hostage and that they had one demand: money. SPONSORS - STEREO…
It was a cold winter morning in Cleveland, Ohio, when a teenage girl vanished after getting on a public transit bus to take her to school. Her parents didn’t learn she was missing until later on that afternoon. Her disappearance sparked a massive search and would lead to calls for safer streets and for new legislation when it comes to schools repor…
MAN-Slaughter tells intertwining stories about how one gunshot on a cold Wisconsin night in 1970 dramatically changed multiple lives. A bullet brutally tore through decorated law enforcement veteran LaVerne Stordock. Decades later, his niece, Dorothy Marcic, transformed herself into an amateur detective in a quest for truth and closure about that n…
Between 1974 and 1975, San Francisco was terrorized by a serial killer known as The Doodler. The untold story of this serial killer has now been turned into a new documentary podcast from Ugly Duckling Films. Subscribe to The Doodler on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you're listening!By Morbidology
In 1990, a young woman was knocked off her bicycle by a man driving a truck along a lonely Ohio country road. The man attempted to abduct the woman but miraculously, she escaped and flagged down a passing motorist. Almost three decades later, an eerily similar attack would occur along another lonely Ohio country road. This time, however, the young …
Wairarapa is a small town in New Zealand, which shows its true beauty in spring. Daffodils are dotted throughout the area which is backdropped by the snowy Tararua Ranges. In 2003, a little girl never showed up to class one morning and the community truly bounded together to try and bring her home safely. Her disappearance would reveal a dark under…
Aspen is a ski-resort town located 13,000 feet up the Rocky Mountains. At one point in time, it was a silver mining town but now, it is a magnet for the wealthy. Nestled among a picturesque mountain and lakes, the average home price in Aspen is around $5 million with at least 50 billionaires owning a home here. In the 1970s and 1980s, Aspen had a r…
New Mexico ranks among the worst states in the United States for child abuse deaths, with more than three per 100,000 children. From 2001 to 2016, more than 22 children in New Mexico ranging from 5 weeks old to 11-years-old have been killed as the result of physical and sexual abuse. While these statistics are extremely alarming, critics say that t…
Blackstone is a town of less than 10,000 near the Rhode Island border in Massachusetts. It’s a quaint suburban area away from the hustle and bustle of city life in Boston, just 50 miles away. On a quiet street just four blocks away from the local police station sat an unassuming Cape Cod-style home. However, what went on behind those closed doors w…
In 2003, Diana and Robin Garbutt moved to the picture postcard village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire, which is located in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. They were attracted to the area by the tranquility of the area. There was very little other than rolling fields, a pub, a post office and village store and a stream meandering through the centre.…
Linda Stein was known as the rock n’ roll real estate agent. She had lived the kind of life that would make anybody envious. From managing the Ramones to finding multi-million-dollar homes for the rich-and-famous, nobody ever envisioned that Linda’s life would end in such a gruesome and tragic manner. SPONSORS - OLD TIMEY CRIMEY: Thank you to Old T…
Armada is a quaint and quiet village in Macomb County, Michigan, with less than two thousand residents. It’s most known for its country fair as well as the Halloween festival aptly named Armada-Geddon. In 2019, it was named the nicest place to live in Michigan. It’s the kind of area where people typically leave their doors unlocked and murder is so…
If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that. This is the story of the line, and the man at the other end who became consumed by his own creation. He was known as “Mr. Apology.” As thousands of callers flooded the line, c…
For many, the all-American dream is to settle down, get married, have a family and have a successful business. For a lot of people, the Corrigan family from Meridian, Idaho, were the epitome of the all-American dream. For some people, however, nothing is ever enough, and a tragedy in 2011 revealed grim secrets and showed that the grass isn’t always…
A collective fear that many women face is walking alone at night-time. Most women can relate to the sense of terror that washes over when you think that somebody could be following you or watching you. In Columbus, Ohio, in 2017, a young woman vanished while walking to her parked car after finishing her shift at a local bar. The investigation would…
On the evening of October 6, 2019, Rosemary Rodriguez went to dinner with her boyfriend and her mother. On the way home, they dropped Rosemary's mother off and headed to her boyfriend's home. According to her boyfriend, Rosemary left his residence in Longview, Texas, after a brief argument. Two days later, a colleague called Rosemary's family to te…
Parents worldwide know the risks and fear that come with allowing their child to venture out into the world, but schools are supposed to offer parents a greater sense of security and a lot of parents feel very few worries about their children heading to school each morning. However, in 2004, a shocking murder instilled fear in parents across the wo…
More than one million Australians are active users of the dating app, Tinder, with those numbers rising by at least 5% each day. The app was created in 2012, and it truly exploded, completely erasing the social stigma that had surrounded online dating for years. However, two years later, a young woman’s death exposed the dangers that online dating …
Carnation is a small town of just under 2,000 people, around 25 miles east of Seattle. It is a sleepy community where ponies and goats can often be spotted grazing along main thoroughfares and where store clerks know everybody’s name. It’s the kind of town that people go to live for a quiet and rural lifestyle. As families all across the world were…
It was Thanksgiving weekend of 1992 when Sara Tokars was returning home to Marietta, Georgia, from Bradenton, Florida, with her two young sons. When she entered the darkened home, she saw a man standing in the kitchen armed with a shotgun. Initially, Sara believed that the man was there to rob them. However, the man then forced the family back into…
Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty. But who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death? This is a six-part series about…
In 2015, a 12-year-old girl in foster care vanished in Brisbane, Australia. It took six days before police even appealed to the public to try and find her, sparking a much-needed debate on how children in out-of-home care or children with difficult backgrounds are treated much differently than other children. The outcome of the case would reveal th…
Bristol is a city in England that prides itself on being one of Britain’s most tolerant and forward-thinking communities. However, a brutal murder of a disabled man in 2013 left the area recoiling in horror, even more so when it was uncovered that the murder had been the result of institutional racism, a vicious rumor mill, vigilante justice and a …
What lengths would a parent go to to have their child’s body returned to them? Would you let your child’s killer go free so that you could be reunited with their body? Sadly, when Matthew Leveson vanished in 2007, his parents would be faced with this unimaginable scenario. SPONSORS - FLOWERPOWER - Thank you to FlowerPower for sponsoring this episod…
Over three decades ago, a 7-year-old girl vanished from her bedroom in the middle of the night while everybody else in the suburb slept soundly. It's frightening for a parent to think that someone could sneak into their child's bedroom completely undetected. It's terrifying for a parent to think that they could be suspected. This investigative true…
Kelli Bordeaux was a young soldier at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg. One night in 2012, she took a break from her regimented lifestyle to enjoy a Friday night at a local bar where she had a few drinks, played a couple of games of pool and belted out some songs on Karaoke. However, after leaving the bar that night, Kelli vanished but not before sendin…
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#HereForHer: Refuge's Lisa King on Domestic Abuse
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In this episode of Inside Crime+Investigation we hear from Lisa King, the Director of communications and external relations at Refuge to fully understand different types of domestic abuse, warning signs, and what you can do if you believe it’s happening to you. Refuge is the country’s largest provider of specialist support services for women and ch…
Wondery (Dr. Death, Dirty John, The Shrink Next Door) and NBC News (Dateline, The Thing About Pam, Motive for Murder) present Do No Harm. The Bright family was thrust into a medical and legal system so committed to protecting vulnerable children from abuse, it failed to protect innocent parents. From the hospital room to the courtroom, we walk in t…
Summerfield is a small town just south of Ocala in Florida. In April of 2015, a man living in South East 53rd Avenue had been sitting on his porch late at night when he saw a boy fleeing from his neighbor’s home. He saw a number of other youths quickly run out after him, punch him, and drag him back inside. What he thought was a typical teenage bea…
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72: Jeffrey and Jesse Ryan and Jason Dehahn
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Amity is a small farming and logging town in Maine of around 200 located near the Canadian border. It is the kind of location people seek out for a quiet and peaceful life. It has not a single store, gas station or even traffic light. In 2010, a shocking murder was discovered inside a mobile home, leaving residents of the sparsely populated communi…
Halloween is a time for dressing up, watching horror movies, and going trick or treating. It is the one day of the year where the main purpose is to be scared and to scare others. However, amid all the harmless activities and fun of the season, violence can occur and genuine fear can be felt. All of the gruesome murders detailed in this episode too…
If someone you love is diagnosed with cancer you want them to get the best treatment from the best doctors. In 2013, patients in Michigan thought Farid Fata was that doctor. Between his prestigious education, years of experience and pleasant bedside manner, Fata was everything you could want in a doctor. But he was not who he appeared to be. From W…
In October of 2012, residents in an upmarket and lavish apartment complex in New York City were disturbed by a deafening scream echoing throughout the hallways. A mother had come home to find her apartment pitch black. In the bathroom, as her eyes adjusted to the light, she saw her bathtub spattered in blood and out of the corner of her eye, she sa…
CrimeLapse is hosted by Eileen and Charlie. A true crime podcast that is uses primary audio, contemporary research and emotive narration to give you an immersive insight into the darkest tales. You can listen to CrimeLapse across all podcast platforms and follow them on social media! Make sure you subscribe to CrimeLapse today: https://linktr.ee/cr…
In early November of 2006, police in Wake County, North Carolina, were alerted to an upmarket home in a quiet and secluded neighborhood. Inside, the discovered tiny bloody footprints that had been made by a wandering little girl who informed them that her mother had “boo boos everywhere.” Her chilling words only hinted at the horror they would find…
Police officers put themselves at risk each day and collateral damage can be a reality that they deal with day-to-day. While police officers are frequently killed in the line of duty, it’s very rare that a police officer is killed by one of their own. What started out at a routine 911 report ended with a police officer bleeding on the ground and an…
If you’ve ever played the lottery, I don’t doubt you’ve fantasized about winning and what you would do with that kind of money. Maybe buy a mansion, an expensive car. A lot of people think that winning the lottery will be the end of their problems but sadly, the curse of the lottery can often befall the winners, leaving them wishing that they never…
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Wondery Presents: Click Bait with Bachelor Nation
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Everyone loves a good bit of gossip. Go inside the juiciest stories on Click Bait with Bachelor Nation. Hosts Tayshia Adams, Hannah Ann Sluss and Joe Amabile, know what it's like to live in the spotlight. They’ve seen that fame can mean being praised, adored, and sabotaged. Sometimes all in the same day! On Click Bait, they share what they’ve learn…
Shortly after 2:15AM on the 5th of February, 2015, police in Bourne, Massachusetts, received a flurry of phone calls reporting a car that was up in flames at the Monument Beach condominium complex on Roadhouse Road. When they arrived at the scene and discovered the burning car, they weren’t prepared for what they would find next. Soon enough, a rou…
It was shortly after midnight in St. Petersburg, Florida, on the 8th of January, 2015, when a police officer was heading home down I-275 after finishing his shift. Moments later, a PT Cruiser sped past him at around 100mph. The officer tried to keep up with the car and pull it over. When they reached the Dick Misener Bridge on the approach to the S…
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Wondery Presents: Even the Rich: The Kennedys
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On July 19th, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy, scion of the greatest political dynasty in modern America, drove his Oldsmobile into a pond. He escaped. But his passenger, a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. In the days that followed, he leveraged the Kennedy political machine to shield himself from scrutiny and safeguard his presidential aspirati…
It was around midnight on the 8th of October, 2016 when a number of drivers swerved to miss a man driving the wrong way on the I-89 highway in Vermont. Emergency dispatchers received phone call after phone call about a vehicle speeding north in a southbound lane. They desperately scrambled to try and locate the vehicle but soon, reports of a crash …
TRUE - A podcast that features the strange, unique, and often wacky side of criminality. These are the stories that will make you wonder if they came from Hollywood - or if Hollywood took it from them. Make sure you're subscribed wherever you're listening!By Morbidology
Casual witnesses to abuse do not have a legal obligation to report it. They do, however, have a moral obligation to report it. In July of 2011, a little girl was found dead inside a lockbox, having suffocated from lack of air. The investigation into her death would reveal what Phoenix, Arizona, police would describe as one of the worst cases in the…
Hatteras Drive in Hudson, Florida, backs onto picturesque canals, leading to the Gulf of Mexico. Many residents of this quaint neighbourhood have docks and boats out the back of their homes while fish shacks are peppered throughout the area. Many retirees live in the area and live a simple and quiet life. However in 2014, their idyll was shattered …
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Surviving Jeffrey Epstein: The Directors Speak
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In this episode of Inside Crime+Investigation, the Surviving Jeffrey Epstein documentary series directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg speak exclusively with A+E Networks’ VP of Programming, Dan Korn about the making of the series - and being sure to tell the story through the lens of the survivors. In the ground-breaking series Surviving Jeffrey…
