Criminology

By Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford

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Criminology is a true crime podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most famous cases in the annals of crime. Hosts Mike Ferguson and Mike Morford will give you every details of these infamous crimes. New episodes come out every Saturday night at 10 PM.

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The Honolulu Strangler

12.10.2023

The Honolulu Strangler case is a series with multiple victims, all clearly linked to one killer. The term “serial killer” had first been used less than one decade before these murders began, so it really didn’t take long for the ...

Criminology episodes:

12.10.2023 The Honolulu Strangler The Honolulu Strangler case is a series with multiple victims, all clearly linked to one killer. The term “serial killer” had first been used less than one decade before these murders began, so it really didn’t take long for the ...
12.03.2023 Leonard Lake and Charles Ng Leonard Lake and Charles Ng are among the most infamous duos in the annals of true crime. They murdered indiscriminately and abducted, raped, and tortured women in a specially built underground bunker. Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the ...
11.26.2023 Dan Markel On July 18th, 2014, 41-year-old Dan Markel was stalked and killed inside the garage of his Tallahassee, Florida home. There were very few clues early on in the investigation, but someone had seen a green Toyota Prius in the area. ...
11.19.2023 Leigh Occhi On August 27, 1992, 13-year-old Leigh Occhi went missing from her home in Tupelo, Mississippi. Leigh lived in the home with her mother, Vickie. It was summer break, and this was Leigh's first day to stay home alone. Join Mike ...
11.14.2023 Listen Now: 48 Hours One of television's most popular true-crime series is now adapted for your ears with the “48 Hours” podcast. Every week, award-winning CBS News correspondents investigate the most intriguing crime and justice cases. Here’s a preview of a new “48 Hours” ...
11.12.2023 Diane Downs In 1983, Diane Downs shot her three children and blamed it on someone who wanted to steal her car. Diane had a superficial gunshot wound to her arm as she pulled her car into the ambulance bay of a hospital ...
11.05.2023 Riley Whitelaw In 2022, 17-year-old Riley Whitelaw was murdered by her co-worker, 28-year-old Joshua Johnson, in the breakroom of the Walgreens where they worked. Riley had been harassed by Joshua and had made complaints to management. For a time, the two worked ...
10.29.2023 Dennis Depue In our annual Halloween episode, we discuss Dennis Depue, the inspiration for the creature in Jeepers Creepers. Like Depue, there have been many real-life cold-blooded killers who have inspired horror movies. These include Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Gary Heidnik, John ...
10.24.2023 Listen Now: New Podcast “Ghost Story” Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his family home say they have been visited by the ...
10.22.2023 The Yuba County Five In 1978, five men disappeared in Northern California. Although some of their remains were eventually found, it only led to a more profound mystery, more questions, and countless theories about what happened to this group of men who’ve come to ...
10.15.2023 The Family Feud Killer Timothy Bliefnick murdered his wife Rebecca after appearing on the game show The Family Feud. The murder occurred a couple of years later, but one answer Timothy gave on the show was very telling. It provided a glimpse into the ...
10.08.2023 Charles and Catherine Romer In 1980, Charles and Catherine Romer disappeared on their way from Florida back home to New York. The Romers were snowbirds finishing the winter in Florida and heading back home. The police know they arrived at the Holiday Inn in ...
10.01.2023 The Claremont Killer In the 1990s, a series of murders rocked Perth, Western Australia. They became known as the Claremont serial killings. The murders rocked the area to the point that people were afraid to leave their homes. Join Mike and Morf as ...
09.24.2023 The Hollywood Ripper On February 21st, 2001, 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin was stabbed to death in her Los Angeles home. The tabloids covered the murder because actor Ashton Kutcher was set to have a first date with Ashley that night. He ran late at ...
09.17.2023 9/11 Unsolved Mysteries On September 11, 2001, the United States was rocked by terrorism and terrible loss of life. In the chaos of the day's events, a murder and a disappearance unfolded that remain unsolved. Mystery surrounds both cases. Join Mike and Morf ...
09.10.2023 Lucy Letby Lucy Letby is one of England's most notorious female killers. In 2015, infants began dying in the NICU at an alarming rate at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, Chesire, England. It was like nothing the hospital had experienced ...
09.03.2023 The Murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman Part 2 The 1994 murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman turned into the trial of the century. The murders were brutal and heartbreaking. But, the fact that Nicole Brown was married to famed football star O.J. Simpson drew massive media attention ...
08.27.2023 The Murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman Part 1 The 1994 murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman turned into the trial of the century. The murders were brutal and heartbreaking. But, the fact that Nicole Brown was married to famed football star O.J. Simpson drew massive media attention ...
08.20.2023 The Rhoden Family Murders In 2016, eight members of the Rhoden family were murdered at multiple residences. The crime scenes were all discovered on the same day, April 22nd, 2016. These murders shocked the residents of Pike County, which is in a rural part ...
08.13.2023 Katelin Akens In the winter of 2015, 19-year-old Katelin Akens flew from Arizona back home to Virginia to visit family. She was excited because her sister Gabi had given birth to a baby boy named Landon. Katelin also caught up with some ...
08.06.2023 Jennifer Odom Someone has been arrested in the 1993 abduction and murder of 12-year-old Jennifer Odom. Jennifer went missing after getting off the school bus near her Saint Joseph, Florida home. The only real lead that police had to go on was ...
07.30.2023 H.H. Holmes H.H. Holmes is often referred to as America's first serial killer. He became fascinated as a child with death and later studied medicine in college. Holmes didn't make all of his money legally. He used arson to con insurance companies ...
07.23.2023 The Arrest of Rex Heuermann On Friday, July 14th, 2023, 59-year-old Rex Andrew Heuermann was arrested for several unsolved murders. Heuermann has so far been charged with three murders. But, these murders are part of a cold case or a set of cold cases commonly ...
07.19.2023 Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark" Leon Benson spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen. His conviction hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses – but what if their memories turned out to be ...
07.16.2023 Elizabeth Barraza In 2019, Elizabeth Barraza was gunned down in front of her home in the early morning of January 25th. The whole thing was captured on the Barraza's doorbell camera with audio and video. Despite this, there have been no arrests ...
07.09.2023 Steven and Katie Pladl Steven Pladl murdered his wife, Katie, their son Bennett, and Katie's father, Anthony Fusco. This story made the headlines because Katie was not just Steven's second wife; she was also his biological daughter. Steven and his first wife, Alyssa, put ...
06.25.2023 Trevor Summers In 2017, Alisa Summers and her five children went through a harrowing ordeal. What made it even worse was that the entire thing was set into motion and then perpetrated by Alisa's husband, Trevor Summers. The two had been married ...
06.18.2023 Tiffany Valiante In 2015, Tiffany Valiante died in what many consider to be a very mysterious way. Just after 11:00 PM, Tiffany was struck by a train and killed in Southern New Jersey. The authorities ruled it a suicide, but Tiffany's family ...
06.11.2023 Fascinating Forensics In this episode, we discuss how forensics played a pivotal role in various cases. In the case of Vincent Brothers, Entomology was the key to figuring out who really killed Vincent's family. Join Mike and Morf as they discuss some ...
06.04.2023 Bart and Krista Halderson In July 2021, 50 yr old Bart Halderson and his 53 yr old wife Krista Halderson of Windsor, Wisconsin, disappeared. They were later found murdered. People who knew them were shocked that anyone would want to hurt the couple. But ...
05.28.2023 Margaret Fox In 1974, 14-year-old Margaret Fox disappeared in New Jersey. She was set to meet a man named John Marshall, who was looking for someone to watch his 5-year-old son. This man had responded to an ad that Margaret and her ...
05.21.2023 Gannon Stauch 11-year-old Gannon Stauch went missing in 2020 in Colorado. His stepmother, Leticia, was the last person known to have seen him, and as the community searched for Gannon, they also offered support to Leticia. But, she told a number of ...
05.14.2023 Betty Gore In 1980, wife and mother Betty Gore was murdered in Texas. It was an especially brutal murder caused by many blows from an axe. Initially, police believed that it must have been a man who murdered Betty because of the ...
05.07.2023 Jaclyn Dowaliby On September 10th, 1988, Cynthia and David Dowaliby woke up to find their daughter Jaclyn missing from the house. The local police, as well as the FBI, started an investigation. They originally thought that the Dowalibys might receive a ransom ...
04.30.2023 The Lululemon Murder In March 2011, two women who worked at a Lululemon store were attacked, and one was killed. Police arrived to find 30-year-old Jayna Murray dead, with over 300 injuries, and 29-year-old Brittany Norwood wounded but still alive. Police found size ...
04.23.2023 Scott Peterson Scott Peterson became one of the most despised criminals ever after being convicted of the murder of his wife and unborn child. Just before Christmas in 2002, 27-year-old Lacie Peterson, who was 33 weeks pregnant with a boy they planned ...
04.16.2023 Helen Sebastian On February 20th, 1983, 51-year-old Helen Sebastian left her home in Racine, Wisconsin, and was never seen alive again. She told her mother that she was going to a friend's house to play cards. Over a month later, parts of ...
04.09.2023 Tristyn Bailey On May 9th, 2021, Mother’s Day, the Bailey family woke up to find their 13-year-old daughter Tristyn Bailey missing. It appeared as though she had not slept in her bed the night before. They quickly called the police, who began ...
04.02.2023 Rita Curran On July 20th, 1971, the body of 24-year-old Rita Curran was found in the bedroom of her Burlington, Vermont, apartment. Her body was discovered by one of her roommates. Rita was a highly regarded teacher at Milton Elementary School, and ...
03.26.2023 The Texarkana Moonlight Murders In 1946, an unidentified person dubbed "The Phantom of Texarkana" committed a series of murders and attacks. They began in Texarkana, Texas, and culminated in Texarkana, Arkansas. These murders terrified the area and caused residents to buy guns and begin ...
03.19.2023 Nicole Morin In 1985, 8-year-old Nicole Morin mysteriously vanished from her apartment building in Toronto. She was set to meet a friend in the lobby to go to the pool but never made it. The friend talked to Nicole on the intercom ...
03.12.2023 The Mad Gasser of Mattoon In Mattoon, Illinois, in the mid-1940s, many people claimed they were made sick by a chemical pumped or sprayed into their homes as a gas. The gasser, or the person people imagined was the gasser, was given several monikers, including ...
03.05.2023 The Lady of The Dunes On July 26th, 1974, the body of a woman was found on Race Point Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It was an extremely gruesome crime scene, and parts of the woman's body had been removed, possibly to prevent identification. This woman ...
02.26.2023 The Murder of Jared Bridegan Jared Bridegan was gunned down in the Jacksonville, Florida, area in February of 2022. His two-year-old daughter was left in the vehicle unharmed but is thought to have witnessed her father's murder. Jared was a father of four. He had ...
02.22.2023 Introducing COLD: The Search for Sheree Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree ...
02.19.2023 The Strip Search Caller A series of disturbing & frightening phone calls targeted dozens of businesses and people over an extended period of time. These calls were placed all over the country, and the person on the other end posed as a law enforcement ...
02.12.2023 Heidi Broussard In 2019, Heidi Broussard and her 16-day-old daughter, Margo, went missing in Austin, Texas. Her fiancee, Shane Carey, was viewed by many as a prime suspect after he did several interviews. But, police were focusing on another suspect, someone who ...
02.07.2023 Wondery Presents: Stolen Hearts Sergeant Jill Evans is a small-town cop in Wales with an impressive record in her job, and a less than impressive record in her love life. After three engagements, two divorces and one affair, she’s beginning to worry that love ...
02.05.2023 Ana Walshe Ana Walshe vanished on Jan 1st, 2023, and her husband, Brian Walshe, is currently awaiting trial for her murder. Brian and Ana rang in the new year with a small celebration at their house. But no one has seen or ...
01.30.2023 Wondery Presents: Frozen Head Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because ...

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Criminology episodes:

The Honolulu Strangler

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng

Dan Markel

Leigh Occhi

Listen Now: 48 Hours

Diane Downs

Riley Whitelaw

Dennis Depue

Listen Now: New Podcast “Ghost Story”

The Yuba County Five

The Family Feud Killer

Charles and Catherine Romer

The Claremont Killer

The Hollywood Ripper

9/11 Unsolved Mysteries

Lucy Letby

The Murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman Part 2

The Murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman Part 1

The Rhoden Family Murders

Katelin Akens

Jennifer Odom

H.H. Holmes

The Arrest of Rex Heuermann

Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark"

Elizabeth Barraza

Steven and Katie Pladl

Trevor Summers

Tiffany Valiante

Fascinating Forensics

Bart and Krista Halderson

Margaret Fox

Gannon Stauch

Betty Gore

Jaclyn Dowaliby

The Lululemon Murder

Scott Peterson

Helen Sebastian

Tristyn Bailey

Rita Curran

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

Nicole Morin

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

The Lady of The Dunes

The Murder of Jared Bridegan

Introducing COLD: The Search for Sheree

The Strip Search Caller

Heidi Broussard

Wondery Presents: Stolen Hearts

Ana Walshe

Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

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