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
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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
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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
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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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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 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
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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 "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
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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 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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Chris Watts: Family Man / Family Murderer
Chris Watts and his wife Shanann seemed to have it all: Thriving careers, wonderful friends, two beautiful kids with a third on the way. But then on August 13, 2018, Shanann’s best friend Nicole can’t get ahold of Shanann. She calls and calls,  and then goes to Shanann’s house. Shanann’s car, purse, phone, wallet, medication are all there, but Shanann and the kids are gone. The mystery of the d...
52m Dec 21, 2021
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218: Dateline: The Charleston Affair
Keith Morrison in all his glory, this week, Fam! A wealthy Charleston banker and his wife are locked in a bitter divorce. One week before their divorce hearing, authorities find an ex-con in town who confesses he had been hired to kill one of them. Who was the mastermind behind the hit? And could it be stopped--even with the ex-con in custody, was it too late to stop the murder? LOOKING FOR MO...
56m Dec 16, 2021
56m
217: The Dating Game Killer (From 20/20)
In the 1970s, a serial killer was running rampant, crisscrossing the country murdering young women and girls in California, Wyoming, and New York City...and probably more. The cops had nothing to go on. And little did they know that the killer was hiding in plain sight and even appeared on the popular TV show "The Dating Game" WHERE. HE. WON. THE. SHOW. AND. A . DATE. WITH. THE. FEMALE. CONTEST...
53m Dec 14, 2021
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216: Dateline: Vanished
In 2011, nursing student Michelle Lee vanishes mid-shift at a California hospital. The next day, Michelle sends text to her friends and family saying she's fine, but they don't believe it's really her. A massive manhunt ensues with the police fearing she's been murdered while her family is certain she's alive and being heled against her will. THIS. ONE. IS. BANANAS. OUR MERCH STORE IS OPEN! (h...
57m Dec 09, 2021
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215: Fruitcake Fraud
AND BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN THINK IT, LET ME REMIND YOU THAT PATRICK IS THE QUEEN FRUITCAKE AROUND HERE...and as much as we want this to be about a band of gay fraudsters, it's not. TIS THE SEASON TO BE SHADY! When the world's most beloved fruitcake company realizes that millions upon millions of dollars have been stolen from the CENTURY OLD FRUITCAKE FACTORY, the whole town is in an uproar. We've...
57m Dec 07, 2021
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214: Dateline: Deadly Connection
When a young woman named Kenia vanishes after a night out with friends, a mysterious young man named Travis comes forward. He said he met the young woman and offered her a ride home, but en route, she got out of his care and went on with another man. Is Travis telling the truth? As authorities look into his story--and his actions on the night in question--they realize they need to act fast to g...
55m Dec 02, 2021
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213: Bad Henry
On a February night in 1994, Lamar Woods came home. The door to his apartment was open and his 10 month old son was screaming. In the bedroom, Lamar found his girlfriend, Brandi Henderson, brutally murdered. For a local detective, the murder sounded eerily similar to other killings that had happened in the area in recent years. It was clear that a serial killer was on the loose and it was only ...
53m Nov 30, 2021
53m
212: Dateline: A Lonely Place
FAM! THIS IS APPARENTLY DATELINE'S 'MOST CHILLING EPISODE'! ALSO, KEITH SWEARS, IT'S PRETTY AMAZING. Chris Smith was living his dream southern California life: close family, great friends, running a small business with trusted colleague. So when he emails his family to say he's giving it all up to travel the world with a, wait for it, Playboy Playmate, his family is confused, but happy for him...
54m Nov 25, 2021
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211: Untold: Crime and Penalties
In a nutshell: THE REAL-LIFE GUY "THE SOPRANOS" IS BASED ON BUYS A HOCKEY TEAM FOR HIS IDIOT SON...HILARITY (AND A LOOOOOOOOT OF FIGHTING) ENSUES. Look, this is the combination of The Mafia and The Sports that you've been dying to hear us talk about, and believe me, it was worth the wait. OUR MERCH STORE IS OPEN! (https://shop.truecrimeobsessed.com/) Want a "Steve, I've Been Duped" T-shirt, or...
57m Nov 23, 2021
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210: Dateline: Scorned
The text messages came often and always went something like this: "My favorite thing to do is stand outside and stare at you," or "I hate you so much, I want to drive a knife into your heart." The texts were sent to Dave and to his ex-girlfriend Liz. The texts came from Kari, who was stalking them both, but who nobody had physically seen in over a year. It was a love triangle, that could only e...
56m Nov 18, 2021
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209: Dateline: The Secrets of Spirit Lake
YOU. ARE. NOT. READY. TO. MEET. LISSA. YELLOWBIRD.  For decades, indigenous women have gone missing around Lissa. And when the authorities have been unwilling or unable to find them, Lissa stepped in and got the job done. LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK! But when Lissa's niece, Carla, vanishes, it becomes personal for Lissa and she will stop at NOTHING to find out what happened to her. COME SEE US O...
49m Nov 16, 2021
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208: Dateline: Deadly Desire
KEITH. MORRISON. HATES. EVERYONE. IN. THIS. EPISODE. It's March, 2011 just before 8:30pm. A frantic 911 call comes in. A violent showdown between two men vying for the attention of a woman named Kandi has ended in a shooting. Both men have been shot, one of them is about to die. How on Earth did we end up here? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsesse...
56m Nov 11, 2021
56m
207: Deal with the Devil (From Netflix's 'Untold' Series)
LESBIAN BOXERS KICKING ASS!!! LITERALLY WHAT COULD BE BETTER? You guys wanted to hear us talking about the sports, so HERE. WE. GO. Christy Martin was unquestionably the best female boxer in the world. She was also problematic as hell.  And kind of an A**hole. But when she's gunned down in her own home, she's in for the fight of her life. YOU GUYS THIS ONE IS WILD. AND JUST WAIT TILL YOU MEET N...
56m Nov 09, 2021
56m
206: Dateline: Night of the Summer Solstice
June 22, 1990. 2:00 am. The phone rings at Gayle and Kay Baker's house in the San Fernando Valley. "We have your son. Unless you give us $100,000 by 5pm, he will die." At first they thought it was a joke. But when the man called back in the morning with the same demand, they knew 21-year-old son was in trouble. Later that day, the police would call the Bakers to tell them their son had been fou...
1hr 1m Nov 04, 2021
1hr 1m
BTK: A Killer Among Us
FAM!! We're doing that thing we do, like, twice a year, and giving ourselves a Tuesday "off" (read: not off, ever off, always working, lol), so we're replaying a favorite episode. BUT DON'T WORRY, YOU'RE GETTING AN ALL NEW DATELINE EPISODE ON THURSDAY!! From 1974 – 1991, a serial killer tormented the people of Kansas. He called himself BTK, which stood for BIND, TORTURE, KILL. He wanted to inc...
52m Nov 02, 2021
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205: Dateline: "Mommy Doomsday"
Lori Vallow was devoted wife and mother, but then people around her started dying. And THEN her children vanished. Lori insisted to the police that the children were fine and being cared for by friends in other states, but that story quickly fell apart. And THEEEEENNNN Lori and her new husband, Chad Daybell (whose first wife ALSO died under mysterious circumstances) fled to Hawaii. And if you d...
53m Oct 28, 2021
53m