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10 New Additions to my True Crime Podcast List

It’s officially summer, which—if TV is to be believed—means it’s time for international travel, beach parties, and road-trips. Now, I am far too heat-avoidant, not-rich,…

The Body in the Freezer: What happened to Heather Lacey?

30-year-old Heather Anne Lacey lost contact with her family in late 2013. The oldest of three sisters, Lacey grew up in Pembroke Pines, Florida. She…

The Bride-to-Be Murder: Who Killed Judy Hakari?

23-year-old Judy Ann Hakari disappeared from Sacramento on March 7, 1970. Seven weeks later, her body was found buried in an abandoned mine 45 miles away. Nearly 50 years later, her murder remains unsolved. Who killed Judy Hakari?

16 New Additions to My True Crime Podcast Spreadsheet

The arrest of the alleged East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker–better known as the Golden State Killer, but he’ll always be EAR/ONS to me–has been quite…

Introducing the Best Damn List of True Crime Podcasts You’ll Ever Find

Last month, I posted a work-in-progress true crime list that’s admittedly limited. I am a self-confessed slave to the spreadsheet (Three cheers for conditional formatting!),…

My (Work-in-Progress) List of True Crime Podcasts

You don’t know how many times I’ve Googled “list of true crime podcasts” and been frustrated with the search results. Maybe this genre is still to niche to warrant a comprehensive list of most—if not all—true crime podcasts. But, how useful would that be for obsessive-types like myself?

I have so many opinions about true crime podcasts, but no one with whom to share them in real life! I mean, I spend most of the work day with headphones on, listening to podcasts about fucked up shit. And because I’m a DIY-type person,  I decided to make that list myself.

On This Day: January 3, 1935, Testimony Begins in Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping/Murder Trial

January 3, 1935: Testimony begins in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping/murder trial. The accused, Bruno Hauptmann, appears in court facing the death penalty.

What Really Happened to Harriet Elizabeth Riley?

A six-year-old is found wrapped in plastic in a Sacramento dumpster in 1975, four years after her father’s unsolved murder. Initially ruled accidental, her “unsolved homicide” case was reopened in 2015: what really happened to Harriet Riley?

In 1981, a Sacramento Man Disappears on Trip to Los Angeles. Two Weeks Later, His Car Found Abandoned in New Orleans: What happened to Dale Kelley?

On the morning of May 20, 1981, 21-year-old Dale Eugene Kelley departed his home in Carmichael, California in his orange 1976 Toyota Celica. He planned make the six-and-a-half hour drive to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend, but he never made it there. Two weeks later, his car turned up abandoned in in New Orleans, but he was nowhere to be found. What happened to Dale Kelley?

Daniel Nations’s Timeline: Not Yet Suspect in Delphi Double Homicide, as New Details of Life and Criminal History Revealed

What have we learned in the month since a connection was first suggested between Daniel Nations and the unsolved double murder of Liberty German and Abigail Williams?

While Indiana State Police have yet to find evidence to either include or exclude Nations as a suspect in the Delphi homicide, new information has come to light about the hatchet-man’s sometimes and often violent past.