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 BRIDGE LOVING CELEBRITIES (bridge-lebrities!). EVERYTHING'S COMING UP LOTAN. But then he's caught cheating. And the bridge world is rocked to it's core..TO IT'S CORE! But is he cheating, or is he just that good? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our P...
56m Aug 16, 2022
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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 killer in a neighboring state sheds some light on how the Chicago killings are being carried out--and how the killers are getting away with it. PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH SUPER HOT HUSBAND STEVE! (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/se...
47m Aug 09, 2022
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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 and nobody knows who will be next or when he will strike again. Who is this killer? And what will it take to end his reign of anonymous terror? This is one part of our two-part coverage. Part 2 is available right now and ad free on Patreo...
52m Aug 02, 2022
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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 country down with them. AND. OH. MY. GOD. LINDA TRIPP. GOT. IT. ALL. ON. TAPE. PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH  MAGGIE, AND LANCE & TIM TO DO THE LIVE SHOW COVERING "THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MAURA MURRAY." Gillian will not be joining us BUT SHE ...
1hr Jul 26, 2022
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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, money, two beautiful kids. So what could have caused have caused Hartman's wife, Brynn, to end it all. Also, this murder / suicide did not go down the way you think it did. PATRICK AND GILLIAN ARE BRING TCO LIVE TO LONDON! Come see us F...
58m Jul 19, 2022
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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." And now the money is nowhere to be found. And nobody saw the body. Is Gerald actually dead, or is he on the run? PATRICK AND GILLIAN ARE BRING TCO LIVE TO LONDON! Come see us Friday, July 22 at Cadogan Hall. GET YOUR TICKETS HERE! (https:...
57m Jul 12, 2022
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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 insurance payouts for Harold. Harold's second wife, Toni, died in a national park. Harold says they had been on a hike, stopped at a scenic overlook, and she fell. But did he push her? When investigators dive into this case, nobody is prepa...
48m Jul 05, 2022
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Let 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 movement had been building in her town of El Paso, Texas around the wrongful conviction of Daniel Villegas. So, she wrote him a letter, turned her life upside down and made history. Here’s how one woman fought for someone else and found hersel...
47m Jun 30, 2022
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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 knows where Shah's money comes from. How does she afford her beautiful homes, her Porsche, the private jets, her $80,000 parties? When she's charged with running a telemarketing scam that targets the elderly, everything you thought you kne...
55m Jun 28, 2022
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Let 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 – specifically the wrongfully convicted. So, when she heard about the 1999 murder of Yvonne Lane – a young mother from a the small town of Alliance, Ohio – and her ex-boyfriend who was blamed for the crime but had maintained his innocence for over a ...
50m Jun 23, 2022
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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 to be a German heiress worth over $60 million. But it was all a lie. She racked up bills all over town and destroyed lives in the process. But how was she able to scam so many people for so long? And can she ever be truly stopped? PATRI...
58m Jun 21, 2022
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Let 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 that took a turn for the worse. A 16-yr-old girl – who would come to be known as Jane Doe – was repeatedly sexually assaulted at the hands of football players and bystanders alike, and it would take an outsider to follow the digital footpri...
42m Jun 16, 2022
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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 late at night. Their bodies, or rather body parts, were found wrapped in garbage bags and dumped at highway rest stops, far from the urban environs where they were last seen. Dubbed “The Last Call Killer,” it would take authorities almost an...
55m Jun 14, 2022
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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 while he was out by the pool, but other evidence would point to Michael as Kathleen's murderer. Fam! You can hear our episode-by-episode coverage of all 13 episodes of "The Staircase" right now and ad free on our Patreon! (http://patreo...
44m Jun 13, 2022
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Let 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 familiar. When she went to authorities only to learn nothing could be done, she decided to take the law into her own hands. She went on to change three sex crimes laws in her home state of Nevada, including the statute of limitations. She help...
52m Jun 09, 2022
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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 for a little over $1,000. Within 5 years, this painting would be deemed a TRUE lost work of Leonardo Da Vinci--painted by the master himself--and sold for $400 Million. Is it possible that this painting had gone missing for hundreds of yea...
57m Jun 07, 2022
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Let 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 that would follow. The rise and fall of LulaRoe –a multi-level marketing company that denies allegations of being a pyramid scheme and still exists today– coincided with Roberta’s experience, carrying her up the Lula-ranks and back down aga...
53m Jun 02, 2022
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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 friends and family know something is terribly wrong. And as the police investigation digs into her life, it becomes clear that Jennifer had been in danger for a long time. HERE ARE OUR ADDED TOUR DATES!!--PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH ...
58m May 31, 2022
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Let 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 crime that never actually happened. What followed was a modern-day witch trial, landing the San Antonio Four –as they’d come to be called– in prison for over a decade. When Anna unexpectedly got out on parole ahead of the others, she had no c...
54m May 26, 2022
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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. The girls had disappeared from the trail the day before. Soon it was revealed that one of the girls, Libby, had captured audio and video of their presumed killer on her smart phone. But even with a mountain of evidence including audio of...
53m May 24, 2022
53m
Let 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 night in 1969 only to eventually be discovered dead in the woods, grief took hold over this ambiguous story for decades. And then, truth-telling around abuse in those hallowed halls merged with Gemma’s outstanding questions. 40 years aft...
47m May 19, 2022
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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"  in 2015 for price gouging the prescription drug Daraprim by 5500% overnight depriving AIDS patients, people with cancer, and pregnant people of the life-saving medication. That same year, Shkreli purchased the Wu-Tang Clan's single copy...
51m May 17, 2022
51m
Let 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 Min Lee left a community grieving and a family friend of Rabia’s, 17-year-old Adnan Syed, in the crosshairs. He was sentenced to life in prison, where he still is to this day. In this episode, we’ll trace Rabia’s decades-long fight to fr...
53m May 12, 2022
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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 you pause. He's handsome enough, seems like he has a full life, and he is RICH RICH RICH. You think, 'what the hell' and you swipe right. And wouldn't you know it, it's a match! Within minutes, he's messaging you asking to meet him for coff...
52m May 10, 2022
52m
Let 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 reached out to her asking if she’d find out what happened to their long-lost sister, Connie went searching. And the resulting journey of producing the podcast Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo would prove to be about so much more than one family...
49m May 05, 2022
49m
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 you pause. He's handsome enough, seems like he has a full life, and he is RICH RICH RICH. You think, 'what the hell' and you swipe right. And wouldn't you know it, it's a match! Within minutes, he's messaging you asking to meet him for coff...
55m May 03, 2022
55m
Let 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 outcasts who were blamed for the crime. From there, her life changed forever. Here’s the story of how a young landscape architect, fell in love and into the fight to free the West Memphis Three.  This episode is part of a ten-part series ...
47m Apr 28, 2022
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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 when he climbed down into plumbing "man hole" he saw what was causing the blockage: human flesh and bone. What followed was essentially an elaborate confession by one of the building's tenants: Dennis Nilsen who explained to the police t...
56m Apr 26, 2022
56m
Introducing: 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 not always dudes. So let’s widen our framework, shall we? On Let The Women Do The Work, join host Gillian Pensavalle as she follows the stories of ten dynamic, inspiring, badass women in true crime, one episode at a time. Let The Women ...
2m Apr 22, 2022
2m
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 all fun and games UNTILL THE MURDERS STARTED HAPPENING. First a Playboy playmate who frequented the club where the men stripped is killed. And then someone much closer to the show is murdered in his office in the middle of the day. THIS IS ...
41m Apr 21, 2022
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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 last seen. In each case, their deaths are ruled hypothermia even though there's evidence of foul play. How could they have been missed by searchers? Were they abducted, murdered, and then brought back to the place they vanished? Loni Coomb...
57m Apr 19, 2022
57m
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 "vanlife" adventure that Gabby shared with the world via her instagram account. By late August, Gabby stopped communicating with her family. And then on September 2, Brian returned home without Gabby. AND HE REFUSED TO SPEAK WITH AUTHORITIES O...
1hr 7m Apr 12, 2022
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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 21 year old son, Paul, and 52 year old wife, Maggie. Both of whom had been shot multiple times. Could this be connected to the death of Paul's friend Mallory, who had been thrown from a boat Paul had been driving while drunk? And as the a...
48m Apr 05, 2022
48m
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 student named Paul Flores. No one ever saw Kristin again. It would take over 25 years to unravel the mystery of what happened that night and to be able to prove what happened to Kristin Smart. COME SEE US ON TOUR (https://www.truecrimeo...
57m Mar 29, 2022
57m
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 Mormon faith) and it’s ten years after that piece of s**t pedophile Warren Jeffs went to prison FOR LIFE. The devoted followers he left behind are suffering and trying to pick up the pieces of their broken lives, all while trying to keep ...
53m Mar 22, 2022
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230: Adrienne (The Murder of Adrienne Shelly)
Adrienne Shelly was a writer and actress best known for writing and co-starring the film Waitress, which was later turned into a Broadway musical. But on the evening of November 1st, 2006 she was fond dead--hanging in the bathroom of her West Village, NYC office. The initial assumption by investigators was suicide, but her husband Andy didn't believe it and pushed the cops to work the case like...
55m Mar 15, 2022
55m
229: BEANIE MANIA!
THERE'S NO MURDER! NOBODY DIES! AND A BUNCH OF RICH CHARDONNAY (PROBABLY, RIGHT?) CHUGGING CUL-DE-SAC MOMS LOSE A BUNCH OF MONEY. THIS CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING: IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT BEANIE MANIA! Also, we beg you, please don't throw your kids OUT OF THE CAR onto A FIVE LANE HIGHWAY when a DELIVERY TRUCK OVERTURNS just to snag a handful of McDonalds-bound Teenie Beanies. Just please don't. CO...
55m Mar 08, 2022
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228: Times Square Killer: Part 2
A madman is on the loose. The press is calling him The Torso Killer because of the gruesome headless and handless bodies he leaves behind. And while investigators search for him in New York City, similar murders are discovered across the river in New Jersey. After one woman narrowly escapes, a suspect is identified. Now they have to find him before he kills again. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our ...
52m Mar 01, 2022
52m
TCO IS GOING ON TOUR!
FAM!!! We're hitting the road with a brand new show covering the TCO classic "Class Action Park"!!! The Patreon pre-sale is on right now! Tickets go on sale for everyone tomorrow! If you're on the Patreon, check your email, you have all the links and codes you need! If you're NOT on the Patreon and you want to get in on this presale, GO HERE TO JOIN PATREON RIGHT NOW AND YOU'LL GET INSTANT ACCE...
2m Feb 22, 2022
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227: The Times Square Killer (Part 1)
FAM! THIS IS A TWO-PARTER! Part 2 is available RIGHT NOW AND AD-FREE at the $5 level on Patreon as a special bonus. Part 2 will be our regular episode next.   Times Square, 1979: fire fighters and police are called to a low budget motel where a room is on fire. What they find is "the motel room from hell"--where two headless and handless torsos have been set ablaze. Investigators begin a frant...
53m Feb 22, 2022
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226: Butcher Baker
Between 1971 and 1983, meek and mild Robert Hansen seemed to have it all; a loving wife and children, a successful bakery business, and world-record hunting trophies bringing him respect from his peers. But behind this carefully cultivated exterior lurked a cold-blooded serial murderer who confessed to killing 21 women, 17 of which were recovered. It was only due to the actions of a few dedicat...
52m Feb 15, 2022
52m
225: Taken: The Real Life "Gone Girl"
6 years ago, Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins were woken in the middle of the night. It was a male voice who said, "wake up, this is a robbery." They were both drugged and bound, and Denise was kidnapped and heled for 48 hours before being released. The ordeal was horrific, but even more terrifying: Nobody believed them. The cops insisted the whole thing was a hoax, even as the kidnapper made it ...
58m Feb 08, 2022
58m
224: The Murder of Jessica Chambers: An ID Mystery
On December 6, 2014, 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was set on fire and left for dead. Her injuries were horrific and she died a few hours later. Who would do this to the popular young woman, and why? Investigators had few clues to go as the dogged search for Jessica's killer takes over her small town. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) , you'll...
59m Feb 01, 2022
59m
223: Murder By The Coast
On October 9, 1999, 18-year-old Rocio Wanninkohf was brutally murdered. Her mother's ex-girlfriend was immediately charged for the murder and convicted. But did she do it? Three years later, another young woman is murdered just steps from her front door. And when the two cases are connected, investigators realize they have a serial killer on the loose.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon fee...
50m Jan 25, 2022
50m
LuLaRich
THREE WORDS: DEAD. FART. LEGGINGS. Meet Mark and DeAnne, the founders of LuLaRoe - the legging company that went from explosive startup to four-alarm corporate wildfire. They share their life stories up to the founding of LuLaRoe. Seeing dollar signs, DeAnne grows her business from one woman selling dresses to a massive network of saleswomen. The business takes off and the future looks bright. ...
49m Jan 20, 2022
49m
222: While He Was Sleeping
Scott and Yarmila Falater had it all. A beautiful marriage, 2 kids who adored them: the perfect upper middle class existence. But then, on January 16, 1997, Scott brutally murdered Yarmila while their children slept. He stabbed her 42 times before throwing her body into the family pool to make sure she was dead. He has never denied doing this. However, he says he's not responsible because he wa...
49m Jan 18, 2022
49m
221: Unraveled: Stalker's Web
WILLIAM ELIZABETH AND ALEXIS ARE BAAAAAAAACK, and they are knock knock knocking on people's doors trying to figure some shit out. AND YOU ALL NEED TO PULL THE HELL OVER because this time they're unraveling the mystery of the world's most terrifying AND I'M GONNA SAY IT diabolical online stalker. The guy is STILL OUT THERE and is a total psychological terrorist who has turned the lives of dozens...
59m Jan 11, 2022
59m
220: Misha And The Wolves
PATRICK AND GILLIAN AGREE! THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DOCS WE'VE COVERED IN A WHILE! In 1997, Misha Defonseca, a Holocaust survivor living in Massachusetts, wrote a memoir. She said she was 7 years old when she fled into the woods to escape the Nazis. And she'd been protected on her years-long journey by a pack of wild wolves. It was the most incredible story anyone had ever heard...but could it p...
56m Jan 04, 2022
56m
Scott Peterson: One Last Chance (From 20/20)
It's been 18 years since Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci. In that time, some members of his family have been working tirelessly to prove his innocence--that he couldn't have killed Laci. Some of their evidence is compelling, but so much of Scott's story still doesn't make sense. But Scott's attorneys are certain that if he's granted a new trial--which seems more ...
1hr 5m Dec 28, 2021
1hr 5m
219: Dateline: The Thing About Pam
Two days after Christmas, 2011, Russ Faria came home to find his wife, Betsy, dead. Betsy’s brutal murder set off a chain of events that would leave another person dead and expose a diabolical scheme. AND. THE. WHOLE. THING. IS. TOLD. TO. US. BY. KEITH. MORRISON LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to B...
58m Dec 23, 2021
58m