True Crime Obsessed
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541: The Oil Well Murder (from "Naming the Dead")
541: The Oil Well Murder (from "Naming the Dead")
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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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- 541: The Oil Well Murder (from "Naming the Dead") · 48 min · Episode 541FAM!! ANOTHER UNIDENTIFIED PERSON IS GETTING THEIR NAME BACK! In 2020, the body of a man was found near an oil well in Stark County, Ohio. For rookie detective Bryan Johnson…
- 540: Hollywood Demons: Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! · 1 h 14 min · Episode 540All right, Fam, it’s time to jump in the way back machine! This time we’re going back to the good ol' innocent days of the early 1990s when THE FORMER MAYOR OF CINCINNATI, Jerry…
- 539: Wicked Witches (from "Mean Girl Murders") · 55 min · Episode 539SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES! When Misty makes a new friend, Jenny, at work, she’s roped into a web of…strangeness when Jenny’s “guardian” (yeah, we have questions too) Irina…
- 538: Kill. Bury. Print. · 1 h 27 min · Episode 538WE ARE TOTAL NERDS FOR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS! Come nerd out with us about this TRULY UNBELIVABLE STORY. In the small town of Idabel, Oklahoma, a family-run newspaper begins…
- 537: Fertility Fraud (from "Betrayal") · 1 h 2 min · Episode 537OMG PATRICK'S FAVORITE PODCAST IS NOW A HULU SHOW! OK, deep breaths! Meet Tina, just, you know, ANOTHER BAD ASS WOMAN ABOUT TO HAVE HER LIFE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN BY SOME AWFUL GUY!…
- 536: Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 Part 2 · 50 min · Episode 536Shit got real REAL fast when the FBI came knock knock knocking on Matty's door. They let him know: Anyone gets hurt or dies at this thing, it's your ass, kid. Does Matty take…
- 535: Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 Part 1 · 54 min · Episode 535Meet Matty, the self-described "twenty-year-old loser working at the vape kiosk in the mall." In 2019, bored and sort of as a joke, he made a post on his Facebook page…
- 534: What the Neighbors Saw (from "48 Hours") · 47 min · Episode 534In 2013, Gary Herpst left his wife and son and went missing. But... they didn't seem to mind all that much and only RELUCTANTLY filed a missing person report for him. Turns out…
- 533: Worst Ex Ever: Primetime Predator · 1 h 11 min · Episode 533Fam, we are here for the sisterhood and solidarity today! Both Kristen and Sabrina were victims of Geoffrey's controlling and abusive behavior, but thankfully they both come…
- 532: Mommy's Little Helper (from "Mother, May I Murder?") · 54 min · Episode 532In April 2012, 61-year-old Mark Staudte died on the floor of his home. When the authorities arrived, his wife, Diane, seemed.. .unphased. And the kids were playing video games in…
- 531: Love Con Revenge: Fallen Soldier · 58 min · Episode 531OK, Fam, do that thing where you stretch your fingers and crack you knuckles BECAUSE YOU'RE ABOUT TO WANT TO PUNCH SOMONE. In 2021, Bridget matched with Ricky on Facebook…
- 530: Dateline: The Silhouette · 57 min · Episode 530Debbie Kelly led a fabulous life in San Antonio, TX - a successful career, a giddy group of tennis-playing girlfriends, and a new house. But after she fell for her contractor…
- 529: The I-70 Killer (from "People Magazine Investigates") · 1 h 11 min · Episode 529In the spring of 1992, a madman terrorized the Midwest, killing at least six people and using Interstate 70 as both his killing field and escape route. In one of the most…
- 528: Worst Neighbor Ever: She Finally Snapped · 1 h 11 min · Episode 528NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED, FAM! What happens when you open your home FOR FREE to a person in need? Well, sometimes they turn out to be a racist and violent garbage person WHO…
- 527: The Devil in Hammond (from "Murder in the Bayou") · 51 min · Episode 527OK, look, we love the bayou. Like, we LOVE IT. The accents, the trees, THE FREAKING GOTHIC VIBES. But what we don't love is the murder. Especially this one. On August 23, 1987, a…
- 526: The Cult of the Soulful Journey · 1 h 16 min · Episode 526Fam, let us ask you a question: Would you ever, say, give up your home, your job, your friends and family to move to move to Minnesota and live in a house where you sleep on the…
- 525: Risky Business (from "Killer Relationship") · 54 min · Episode 525On January 2014, 46-year-old Jerry Moore was stabbed to death in his home in Marietta, Georgia. When no suspect emerges, Jerry's best friend Randy - WHO HE MET AT A GAY LINE…
- 524: A Toxic Love Story · 1 h 33 min · Episode 524In June 2016, Michelle Hadley was served a restraining order. She was barred from ever again speaking to her ex-boyfriend Ian and his new girlfriend Angela. According to the…
- 523: The Diamond Diva (from "FEDS") · 50 min · Episode 523I mean, just keep staying stupid, all you felonious felons and crime-y criminals. Today's we're tracking a woman known as the "Diamond Diva" across several states in the South as…
- 522: The Perfect Life · 1 h 5 min · Episode 522Fam, Andrea Canning is having none of it. In this "Dateline" episode, she explores the murder of Jennifer Ramsaran, and sits down with the absolute garbage-est HERB who ever…
- 521: The Curious Case of... The Corpse Who Came to Dinner · 53 min · Episode 521Jean Steven was very close to her sister and her husband. Perhaps a bit... too close. We've got a bit of an odd story today, Fam - straight out of a Hitchcock movie. Why did Jean…
- 520: Blood on Bourbon Street (from "Fatal Destination") · 56 min · Episode 520In July 2003, 34-year-old Shawn Johnson was in New Orleans for a conference. And he did WHAT ANY OF US WOULD DO and tacked on a few days for a little bit of fun. On his last…
- 519: Worst Ex Ever: Dating the Deadpool Killer · 1 h 18 min · Episode 519Fam, when they say "Worst Ex Ever" they really aren't kidding here - and giving him the "Deadpool" moniker just because he's got the same name as the comic book character? Yeesh…
- 518: Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill · 1 h 6 min · Episode 518Fam! We're back in the world of sports today: dressage! Also known as "fancy horse dancing" to us city hicks who'd probably fall off a horse at the first canter (that's a…
- 517: Jewels and Jinxes (from "The Real Murders of Orange County") · 38 min · Episode 517When 68 year old Mario Hernandez didn't show up for family dinner in March of 2005, his family knew something was terribly wrong. Mario was a family man. Nothing would have kept…
- 516: Maternal Instinct · 1 h 21 min · Episode 516OK, Fam - it's the one you've been waiting for! On October 9, 2020, 27-year-old Taylor Parker was pulled over on a Texas highway. When the cops approached the car, they found a…
- 515: The Yogurt Shop Murders (From "20/20") · 56 min · Episode 515Take a deep breath for this one, Fam! On December 6, 1991, four teenaged girls were found sexually assaulted and murdered in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop in Austin, Texas…
- 514: The Body on the Train (from "Naming the Dead") · 42 min · Episode 514Journalist Marresa Burke is on a mission: to give the name back to a man in a cemetery known only as "unknown negro." The man died while riding the rails in the 1960s- - crushed…
- 513: Devil in the Mountains · 57 min · Episode 513A brutal killer is on the loose, stabbing and shooting people at random. Nobody is safe. All we know about him is that he has "movie star good looks" and drives a car with…
- 512: The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle - Part 2 · 1 h 7 min · Episode 512SOOOOOOOO according to Benjaman's brother, Benjaman is totally an ax murderer. Or some kind of murderer anyway. As soon as Benjaman discovers his true identity, things go off the…
- 511: Vanishing Act (from "FEDS") · 41 min · Episode 511Fam, we're coming at you with a crazy story today - a kidnapping that rocks the town of Ponte Vedra, Florida, where crime is "extremely rare." So rare, in fact, that.. is this…
- 510: The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle - Part 1 · 1 h 9 min · Episode 510Pull over and gird your loins, Fam, because this one is NUTS and we have a lot of feelings bout it! In 2004, a 64-year-old man is found bloody, beaten AND YES NAKED behind a…
- Murder in Glitterball City Ep 1 (from our Patreon feed!) // True Crime Obsessed · 55 minFAM! We're off for for the holiday break, but while we're away we're sharing the first episode of our Patreon coverage of Murder in Glitterball City here! Check it out, and then…
- 509: Death in Hell's Kitchen · 44 min · Episode 509IT'S PRIDE MONTH AND STILL WE CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE. Ugh. In 2022, a string of unusual deaths of young gay men rocked the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, NYC. Well "unusual"…
- 508: Secrets in the Ashes · 57 min · Episode 508THIS ONE IS FULL OF THE CRAZIESSSSSSS, FAM! When 31-year-old Patricia Leigh Mills is found dead in her home - the victim of a voracious house fire - the police JUST TAKE HER…
- 507: The Crash · 1 h 31 min · Episode 507On the morning of July 31, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, driving nearly 100 miles per hour, crashed her car into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. The two other…
- 506: Joe Hunter's Mission (from "48 Hours") · 57 min · Episode 506When Joanna Hunter died in her home in 2011, it took the cops less than 30 minutes to rule the death a suicide. Mostly because her husband said that that's what happened. No…
- 505: The Grindr Killer Scandal: A Faking It Special · 48 min · Episode 505Over the course sixteen months, 39-year-old Stephen Port killed four gay men in his East London home... and DESPITE BEING A TOTAL IDIOT... completely got away with it. All four…
- 504: Untold: Chess Mates · 55 min · Episode 504Just when we thought the biggest drama around the chess world was reserved for a 1980s British mega-musical about US/Soviet Cold War relations, along comes a bunch of tech bros…
- 503: The Body in the Sand (from "Naming the Dead") · 43 min · Episode 503The body of an unidentified young woman was found in the Arizona desert in August 1992. Over thirty years later, the incredible efforts of the forensic genealogists at the DNA…
- 502: The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson · 1 h 9 min · Episode 502Moriah Wilson could do just about anything. As a kid she became a world-class skier, and then as an adult she became one of the best gravel bike racers in the world. In May of…
- 501: The Curious Case of... The Woman Dying for Attention · 58 min · Episode 501Feigning a terminal illness, masquerading as a different person, allegedly being pregnant and then suddenly not - we've seen A LOT of pernicious people running scams over the…
- 500: TikTok Terror (from "Deadly Influence") · 54 min · Episode 500On July 18, 2022, 29 year old Sania Kahn was gunned down in her Chicago apartment by her estranged husband. We...do not have the words for what a freaking BADASS Sania was. She…
- 499: Trainwreck: The Real Project X · 43 min · Episode 499Merthe just wanted to throw herself a small "Sweet Sixteen" birthday party at her house, so she made an event on Facebook and invited her closest friends. What could go wrong?…
- The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder Ep 1 (from our Patreon feed!) · 57 minFAM! As a special bonus, we're sharing the first episode of our Patreon coverage of _The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder_ here! Check it out, and then find the rest of our…
- 498: The Secrets of the Twelve Tribes Cult · 1 h 1 min · Episode 498TICK TOCK IT'S CULT O'CLOCK!! Are you looking for to join a secretive group that makes you give up all your worldly possessions, works you like a freaking dog for absolutely no…
- 497: Do It for Juan (from "Murder Under the Friday Night Lights") · 44 min · Episode 497Juan Joseph was a beloved member of his community, a former high school football star who became a respected coach. The kind of guy who never started fights, but rather always…
- 496: The Curious Case of... The Skincare Queen and the Hitman · 1 h 1 min · Episode 496They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... but maybe not so much in the high-stakes world of Hollywood skin care. Dawn DaLuise, the perhaps self-proclaimed skin…
- 495: Wild Boys: Strangers in Town · 1 h 4 min · Episode 495This week we're among the good people of Canada, Fam, in a community who opened their hearts to two mysterious brothers who wandered into town on day, claiming to have been…
- 494: Secrets to Reveal (from "A Killer Among Friends") · 49 min · Episode 494Fam! Welcome to our first bonus episode of the year! We have 22 Thursday episodes coming to you between now and the end of the year! Welcome also to... the past, with our old…
