Murder Among the Mormons
YOU GUYS WE ARE OBSESSED! Three separate explosions attempt to take out prominent members of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City.  The crimes expose the dark underbelly in the world of rare documents dealing within the church community. DID I MENTION THAT WE'RE OBSESSED? COME HEAR US SCREAM ABOUT IT! FAM OUR LIVE SHOW IN BOSTON IS BACK ON AND TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE!! (https://thewilbur.com/ar...
40m Jul 08, 2021
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Class Action Park
During its 1980s and 1990s heyday, New Jersey’s Action Park earned a reputation as the most insane — and possibly the most dangerous — amusement park that ever existed. It was known as a lawless land, ruled by drunk teenage employees and frequented by even drunker teenage guests. The rides were experimental and illogical, and seemed to ignore even the most basic notions of physics or common sen...
50m Jul 06, 2021
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187: White Boy
Fam, if you thought New York in the 70s, was bad, WELCOME TO DETROIT IN THE 80s. It’s the height of “the war on drugs” and, according to local law enforcement, it seems that a new drug gang is popping up every week. Enter the notorious White Boy Rick—a SIXTEEN YEAR OLD DRUG KINGPIN WHO IS RUNNING DETROIT LIKE A MAFIA BOSS…or so the legend went. In reality, he was a14-year-old informant for the ...
53m Jun 29, 2021
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186: Searching for Sheela
BUCKLE UP EVERYONE, GILLIAN IS REAL MAD THIS WEEK! So, Ok, remember Ma Anand Sheela from “Wild Wild Country?” She was Bagwan’s number 2, bus we all knew she was really the one running things in the Rajneesh Cult. Remember how she went a little bananas and tried to poison the entire town in Oregon where the cult was based and then she plotted to assassinate a Senator, and then went into hiding ...
53m Jun 22, 2021
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185: Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel: Part 2
This is part 2 of our 2-part coverage. For episode 1, please see last week's episode! Can a building be evil? (Gillian: “NO, IT’S JUST A BUILDING!”). Can web sleuths solve a truly bizarre death? (Patrick: “NO! GET OFF FACEBOOK AND GO. OUT. SIDE.). And what exactly is a hotel general manager’s job? (Patrick and Gillian: (“UNCLEAR!”)  Welcome to the Cecil Hotel—a once grand hotel which rotted fr...
52m Jun 15, 2021
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184: Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
FAM: This is a two-part series. Episode 2 is available right now and ad-free for 1 week only on our Patreon at all levels (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) . Part 2 will be our regular episode next week! Can a building be evil? (Gillian: “NO, IT’S JUST A BUILDING!”). Can web sleuths solve a truly bizarre death? (Patrick: “NO! GET OFF FACEBOOK AND GO. OUT. SIDE.). And what exactly is ...
53m Jun 08, 2021
53m
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults
From the 1975 disappearance of 20 people in small-town Oregon to the 1997 mass suicide of 39 people all wearing the same pair of Nike Decades in San Diego, “Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults” sketches the evolution of the UFO-worshipping cult that mystified Americans in the last quarter of the 20th century. OH, AND THERE'S MUSICAL THEATER! Fam! We're so excited to share episode 1 of our Patreon...
42m Jun 03, 2021
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183: Why Did You Kill Me?
In February 2006, 24-year-old Crystal Theobold was killed in a drive by shooting in front of her house in Riverside, California. Her mother Belinda became obsessed with tracking down her killer and took to social media, creating profiles she thought the killer would be attracted to in an attempt to trick them into confessing--and the line between justice and revenge is quickly blurred. LOOKING...
53m Jun 01, 2021
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182: WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
TICK TOCK IT'S CULOT O'CLOCK....AGAIN! And Gwyneth Paltrow is here? WHAT? If you live in a city, there was a time you saw a WeWork on just about every corner. It was the co-working space where all the cook kids went to, like, make stuff and drink coffee. But who even knew the whole thing was a cult-meets-pyramid-scheme with all you can drink "summer camps" and a leader who looks like the low r...
52m May 25, 2021
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181: Sasquatch: Part 2
In 1993, three men were found dead--"torn limb from limb"--on a farm in northern California. It was said to be the work of a Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, who lived in the dense forest near the farm. Investigative journalist David Holthouse in on a quest to solve the mystery. Was it the work of the mythical / illusive creature? And if so, Can David find one? FAM! WE'RE DOING A VIRTUAL LIVE SHOW! CLIC...
53m May 18, 2021
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180: Sasquatch: Part 1
In 1993, three men were found dead--"torn limb from limb"--on a farm in northern California. It was said to be the work of a Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, who lived in the dense forest near the farm. Investigative journalist David Holthouse in on a quest to solve the mystery. Was it the work of the mythical / illusive creature? And if so, Can David find one? FAM! WE'RE DOING A VIRTUAL LIVE SHOW! CLIC...
52m May 11, 2021
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179: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
On February 4, 1974, 19-year-old Patty Hearst, heiress to the Hearst Newspaper fortune, was kidnapped from her Berklee apartment. The kidnappers were a group of young Americans calling themselves The Symbionese Liberation Army--a group dedicated to the violent overthrow of the US government. What resulted was America's first media frenzy. And things only got crazier when Patty became "Tania" an...
54m May 04, 2021
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178: Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
Do you have an idiot kid you want to get into an Ivy League college? Are you super rich? Maybe you spent a couple seasons on "Full House?" Well have we got the scam for you! For over 10 years, a man named Rick Singer helped the rich and famous get their kids into the school of their parents' dreams--all done through cheating, manipulating, and paying people off. And guess what? THEY ALL EVENTUA...
56m Apr 27, 2021
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177: The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
DORIS PAYINE IS THE WORLD'S MOST NOTORIOUS JEWEL THIEF...AND SHE REALLY LOVES HER JOB, YOU GUYS! This is one of the wildest rides we've gone on in a while! This documentary tells the tale of how a poor, single, black mother from segregated West Virginia became the world's most notorious jewel thief. She's complicated and fabulous and we have a lot of feelings.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Pa...
54m Apr 20, 2021
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176: Serial Killer: "Sam Little: To Catch a Killer"
Sam Little is America’s most prolific serial killer, murdering over 90 across 17 states over the course of 30 years. How is it possible that a man who was never particularly careful about his crimes could get away with a killing spree spanning so many decades? Beth Karas, and our pals at Oxygen, investigate CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "Strange And Unexplained With Daisy Eagan" (https://lnk.to/p...
54m Apr 13, 2021
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175: Serial Killer: Oxygen's "Kemper on Kemper"
You guys, please don't let your Wikipedia page start the way this guy's does: "serial killer, serial rapist, cambial, and necrophile..." YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKES. As a teenager, Kemper killed his grandparents, was sent to a mental hospital WHERE HE WAS RELEASED ON GOOD BEHAVIOR 6 YEARS LATER. He would go on to kill 8 more people--including 6 young women and his own mother. But when he was caught, he...
53m Apr 06, 2021
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174: Who Killed the Coed?
The murder was so brutal—so violent—that detectives on the scene remarked that they’d never seen anything like it. On the morning of September 7, 2012 Faith Hedgepeth’s roommate Karena Rosario found her dead in her bed in the apartment they shared near their college, UNC Chapel Hill. She’d been brutally beaten over the head with a liquor bottle and left to die. Nothing made sense. Faith was be...
53m Mar 30, 2021
53m
True Crime Obsessed Feat. Chrissy Teigen
EVERYONE BE COOL, CHRISSY TEIGEN IS HERE! After months of Instagram-DM-Friendship, Chrissy flew to New York for a (Covid-safe) in-person hangout with Patrick and Gillian! Nothing is off the table in this chat! We talk true crime, The Illuminati, Hooters, Biden, and nude roller skating videos! And Chrissy's husband, John Legend, makes an appearance or two! LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon f...
1hr 1m Mar 25, 2021
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Drew Peterson: American Murder Mystery
When Stacy Peterson, a 23-year-old mother of 4, vanishes without a trace, authorities look to her husband Drew, a man 30 YEARS HER SENIOR! Peterson, a cop, claims--we swear to Goddess, you guys--that Stacy grabbed $25,000, the deed to the house, AND HER BIKINI-- and took off with another man. AND GUESS WHAT, THERE'S MORE! Turns out, Drew's third wife, Kathy, died under very mysterious circumsta...
50m Mar 23, 2021
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173: The Beatrice Six: Keith Morrison Investigates
1 murder. 6 convictions. But did any of them do it?   Sometime after midnight on February 6, 1985, 68-year-old Helen Wilson was raped and brutally murdered in her small apartment in downtown Beatrice, Nebraska. In an era before DNA testing, all investigators had to go on was the fact that the killer had a very rare genetic marker in his blood type. But there were no other viable clues. But fo...
59m Mar 16, 2021
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172: Framing Britney Spears Part 2
OOPS WE DID IT AGAIN! This is Part 2 of our 2-part series covering "Framing Britney Spears." How does a talented, productive, and financially successful pop star lose complete legal control of her life? Imagine, one minute you’re a singer at the top of you game—touring the world, selling millions of albums—and the next minute a father you have no relationship with is in full control of your fi...
52m Mar 09, 2021
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171: Framing Britney Spears
OOPS! We accidentally made this a two-part series! WE HAD SO MUCH TO SAY! Part 2 is available right now and ad free at the $5 level on Patreon. It will be our regular episode next week! How does a talented, productive, and financially successful pop star lose complete legal control of her life? Imagine, one minute you’re a singer at the top of you game—touring the world, selling millions of al...
53m Mar 02, 2021
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170: Southern Rites
In 2010 in Montgomery, Georgia, journalist Gillian Laub uncovered a murder. An 62-year-old white man had shot an killed a 19-year-old black man, and had all but gotten away with it. The journalist, Gillian Laub, had fist come to the town the year before to document Montgomery’s longstanding tradition of  segregated proms. Yes, SEGREGATED PROMS IN 2009 IN AMERICA! And so in 2010, she embedded he...
52m Feb 23, 2021
52m
169: Murder on Middle Beach: Part 2
On March 3rd, 2010, 48 year old Barbara Beach-Hamburg was found murdered in the side yard of her house in the wealthy town of Madison, Connecticut. The murder had been brutal and personal, and it completely changed the lives of Barbara’s two kids—18-year-old Madison and 16-year-old Ali. As years passed, Barbara’s murder remained unsolved and rumors swirled about who could have done it. Was it B...
54m Feb 16, 2021
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168: Murder on Middle Beach
FAM! This is a two-part series! Episode 2 is available right now and ad-free on our Patreon. Part 2 will be our regular episode next week. On March 3rd, 2010, 48 year old Barbara Beach-Hamburg was found murdered in the side yard of her house in the wealthy town of Madison, Connecticut. The murder had been brutal and personal, and it completely changed the lives of Barbara’s two kids—18-year-ol...
52m Feb 09, 2021
52m
"The Vow" Ep 1: The Science of Joy
Say it with us: TICK TOCK, CULT O'CLOCK! In this bananas premiere, we meet Mark and Sarah, two former high ranking NXIVM members who tell us how they came to be devoted members of "the company" and it's founder Keith Ranieri--AND HOW THEY ESCAPED! You can binge all 9 ad-free episodes of our coverage of The Vow right now on Patreon at the $5 level (https://www.patreon.com/creator-home) . There...
48m Feb 04, 2021
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167: Untouchable
Harvey Weinstein was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. For decades, it was an open secret that he was also a sexual predator. Through interviews with the brave women who risked their very lives by speaking out, Untouchable tells the story of how Harvey Weinstein was brought down after 4 decades of misconduct, abuse, and rape.  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (https://www.pat...
48m Feb 02, 2021
48m
166: Alabama Snake
October 4, 1991, Scottsboro, Alabama. A woman calls for an ambulance in the middle of the night saying she’s been bitten by a poisonous rattle snake. When they get her into the ambulance, she tells them that her husband, a snake-handling local preacher, had used his snakes to try to kill her. And thus begins one of the most terrifying and bizarre cases we’ve ever covered. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO?...
51m Jan 26, 2021
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165: The Disappearance of Phoenix Coldonn Part 2: Where is She
This is part 2 of our coverage. If you're looking for part 1, you can find it here (https://audioboom.com/posts/7769577-the-disappearance-of-phoenix-coldon) . Shawndrea and Jo continue their search for 23-year-old Phoenix Coldon. In this episode, they track down a friend of Phoenix who is certain she saw Phoenix on a flight 2. YEARS. AFTER. PHOENIX. VANISHED. They also learn new details about ...
54m Jan 19, 2021
54m
164: The Disappearance of Phoenix Coldon
FAM! This is a two part series! Episode 2 is available ad-free right now at the $5 tier on our Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) Part 2 will be our regular episode next week. At 3pm on December 18, 2011, 23-year-old Phoenix Coldon got in her card and left her family home. Her parents thought she was going to a convenience store and then to a friend’s house. She was expected ...
48m Jan 12, 2021
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163: BTK: A Killer Among Us
From 1974 – 1971, a serial killer tormented the people of Kansas. He called himself BTK, which stood for BIND, TORTURE, KILL. He wanted to incite fear and panic, and so his killings were especially brutal. He taunted police with postcards, letters, and voice messages, but no matter how many clues the madman gave them, they still couldn’t catch him. But then, in 2005, after 10 murders and more t...
57m Jan 05, 2021
57m
162: Dead Man's Line
On February 8, 1977, 43-year-old Tony Kiritsis walked into the office of mortgage broker Dick Hall and WIRED THE BARREL OF A SAWED OFF SHOT GUN TO HALL’S NECK.  This "dead man's line" meant that if a policeman shot Kiritsis the shotgun would go off and shoot Hall in the head. The same would happen if Hall tried to escape. Kiritsis called the police from Hall's office and told them that he had t...
54m Dec 29, 2020
54m
Unsolved Mysteries Ep 12: Stolen Kids
In May and August of 1989, two toddlers were stolen from the same New York city playground. The playground was full of witnesses, but, seemingly, nobody saw anything. Were the kidnappings connected? Was there a "baby selling ring" as rumors suggested? And 30 years later, is there still a chance that these families can find their missing children?  LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (htt...
50m Dec 24, 2020
50m
Unsolved Mysteries Ep 11: The Lady in the Lake
FAM!!! THIS ONE WAS DIRECTED BY OUR FRIEND SKYE BORGMAN (Director of "Abducted in Plain Sight" and Patrick's colaberator on the podcat "Obsessed With: Abducted in Plain Sight). On the night of January 12, 2010, JoAnn Matouk Romain vanished from the parking lot of her church after an evening prayer service. The police on the scene were convinced she'd walked across the 4 lane highway behind the...
50m Dec 17, 2020
50m
161: HBO's The Mystery of D.B. Cooper
THIS IS THE CASE PATRICK’S BEEN WAITING TO COVER ALL YEAR! On the afternoon of November 24, 1971 a man using the name Dan Cooper boarded a passenger flight at Portland international airport, and hijacked the plane. He demanded $200,000 in cash and 4 parachutes. And then, money in hand, he jumped out of the plane at 10,000 feet. No trace of Cooper was ever found—though some of the money eventual...
56m Dec 15, 2020
56m
Unsolved Mysteries Ep 10: Tsunami Spirits
In March, 2011, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale rocked Japan. 30 minutes later, the country experienced the largest tsunami in its history. And then came the blizzard. The three coinciding natural disasters killed over 15,000 people. In the moths following these events, hundreds of paranormal occurrences were recorded including ghost sightings and spiritual possessions. This ep...
48m Dec 10, 2020
48m
160: The Trials of Ted Haggard
It's a weird one, you guys, but I really think it's one of our best episodes yet: Ted Haggard was living the life. As the founder and head, like, Pastor (?) of the New Life Church, Haggard was one of the most rich, famous, influential Evangelicals in America. He, his wife Gayle, and their two kids had it all. And then Ted Haggard got busted buying Crystal Meth from and paying for sex with a g...
53m Dec 08, 2020
53m
Unsolved Mysteries Ep 9: Death Row Fugitive
In November, 1965, Lester Eubanks brutally murdered 14 year old Mary-Ellen Deener. He was swiftly convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. However in 1973, he was able to just walk away from his sentence while out of the prison on a shopping trip that had been arranged for inmates on an honor program. He hasn't been seen since. Lester Eubanks has been on the run for more than 40 years, an...
51m Dec 03, 2020
51m
159: Missing 411
On July 10, 2015, two-year-old DeOrr Kunz vanished while on a camping trip with his young parents. The circumstances were...bizarre to say the least. The family was in the middle of the woods, miles from the nearest road. Little DeOrr had been walking with his parents, then turned to walk the 100 or so feet back to his grandfather. It was broad daylight. And in the split second that nobody was ...
53m Dec 01, 2020
53m
Unsolved Mysteries Episode 8: A Death in Oslo
At 10:44pm on May 31, 1995, a woman named Jennifer Fairgate checked into the Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway. It was the most exclusive hotel in Norway at the time. Two days into her stay, a security officer at the hotel knocked on the door to her room. Within seconds a gunshot rang out. When the police arrived, they found the woman dead on the bed. It turned out that she'd given a false name at ch...
48m Nov 26, 2020
48m
Natalie Wood: American Murder Mystery
At 43 years old, actress Natalie Wood had it all. She was an adored icon who'd been acting since before she could remember. She'd married the love of her life and had a thriving career and a loving family. But on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981, she disappeared from the yacht she was sharing with her husband Robert Wagner and actor CHRISTOPHER FREAKING WALKEN. Hours later, her body was recovered i...
50m Nov 24, 2020
50m
Unsolved Mysteries Ep 7: Washington Insider Murder
When the body of former White House aide, Jack Wheeler, is found in a landfill, confusion and conspiracy theories abound as the authorities try to figure out what happened. And the search turns up hours of bizarre surveillance video of Jack who was inexplicably miles from home--and on foot-- in the days leading up to his death. How did he wind up in the landfill? Was he murdered? And if so, by ...
48m Nov 19, 2020
48m
158: Dannemora Prison Break
Is it just me, or should breaking our of a SUPER MAX PRISON be hard? AND YET SOMEHOW THESE TWO IDIOTS FIUGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT? On the night of June 5, 2015, two MURDERERS, broke out of  a prison fortress thought to be impenetrable. A little after 11 p.m., they climbed through holes they had cut — over months, with tools smuggled in by a prison guard — in the cell walls. They snaked through t...
54m Nov 17, 2020
54m
Unsolved Mysteries Ep 6: Missing Witness
At 17 years old, Lena Chapin made a startling confession, and the whole thing was captured on tape. 4 years earlier, she’d helped her mother, Sandra Klemp dispose of a body. It was the body of Sandra’s husband, whom Sandara had killed in cold blood earlier that day. Three years later , Lena was set to testify against her mother in court—she was going to tell everything she knew. But then Lena v...
46m Nov 12, 2020
46m
157: Son of Sam: Hunt for a Killer
"Go out and kill, commands father Sam. I am here on Earth to create havoc and terror."--letter to cops from The Son of Sam. 1977. In the summer of 1977, a serial killer is targeting young couples. He stalks them late at night. He waits until they get into their car, he shoots, and then runs into the shadows. With six people dead and New York City paralyzed by fear, the cops have no leads. And ...
53m Nov 10, 2020
53m
Unsolved Mysteries Ep 5: Berkshires UFO
On the night of September 1, 1969 residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts witnessed UFOs--and they're recounting their experiences in EVERY. TERRIFYING. DETAIL. Some were abducted, some are missing hours of their lives, some are telling their stories for the very first time. Is this real? Many of these people have never met--to this day--but their accounts are shockingly similar. What real...
50m Nov 05, 2020
50m
156: An Honest Liar
WE DID A QUIRKY ONE FOR ELECTON DAY TO HELP TAKE YOUR MIND OFF THINGS!! An Hones Liar is all about the Amazing Randi, a world renowned magician and artist who dedicated his life to exposing fake psychics and others who claimed to have paranormal powers. WE LOOOOOOOOOOOVED THIS ONE, YOU GUYS....or at least we loved most of it..... LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed (https://www.patreon....
1hr Nov 03, 2020
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Unsolved Mysteries Ep 4: No Ride Home
On April 3, 2004, 23 year old Alonzo Brooks and 3 friends drove to a party in La Cygne, Kansas--about 50 miles from where they lived in Garner Kansas. It would later be said that Alonzo was the only black person at the party, and though by all accounts he was having fun, racial slurs had been directed at him. Later that night, Alonzo's three friends left the party, unknowingly stranding him the...
49m Oct 29, 2020
49m
155: Charles Manson: The Women
THIS WAS NOT WHAT WE MEANT WHEN WE SAID "LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK." Charles Manson WAS NOT AN EVIL GENIUS. He was, as Gillian describes him, a puny little twerp. HOWEVER, the crimes committed at his behest are infamous. And surely you've heard the stories before, but this time we're hearing them FROM THE WOMEN WHO WERE THERE!! Squeaky, Gypsy, A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD NAMED SNAKE, you can't make th...
53m Oct 27, 2020
53m
Unsolved Mysteries Ep. 3: House of Terror
In early April, 2011—nobody knows the exact date—a prominent family vanished from their lavish townhome in Nantes, France. A few day later, close family members and friends of the family received a typewritten, unsigned letter from the mother and father stating that they had relocated to the Unitec States with their four children. They were now deep undercover working with the US government and...
50m Oct 22, 2020
50m