Morbidology

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Morbidology is an award-winning weekly true crime podcast created and hosted by true crime author, Emily G. Thompson. Using investigative research combined with primary audio including 911 calls, interviews and trial testimony, Morbidology takes an in-depth look at some of the world's most heinous murders.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3527306/advertisement

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233: Maddy Middleton

12.04.2023

Santa Cruz, California, is renowned for its secure, laid-back beach atmosphere. Boasting white sandy beaches and a charming boardwalk, it remains a favoured destination for tourists. It was the peak of summer season in 2015. The city was abuzz with ...

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12.04.2023 233: Maddy Middleton Santa Cruz, California, is renowned for its secure, laid-back beach atmosphere. Boasting white sandy beaches and a charming boardwalk, it remains a favoured destination for tourists. It was the peak of summer season in 2015. The city was abuzz with ...
12.04.2023 Listen Now - Dr. Death: Bad Magic "From Wondery, and hosted by Laura Beil - The new season of Dr. Death, BAD MAGIC is a story of miraculous cures, magic and murder. When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around ...
12.04.2023 Introducing the Jordan Harbinger Show The Jordan Harbinger Show is an award winning interview podcast with intriguing guests, especially for us True Crime enthusiasts. I've been a dedicated listener for years and hope you enjoy it too.
11.27.2023 232: Ingrid Lyne The trend of online dating continues to surge in popularity each year. Yet, alongside its widespread appeal, the realm of online dating harbours its own set of dangers. The veiled nature of interactions through digital screens allows individuals to craft ...
11.20.2023 231: Billy Jack Gaither Sylacauga is a small town in central Alabama, nestled amid the rolling hills and forests of Talladega County. Back in the 1990s, this tight-knit community was so diminutive that it lacked fundamental establishments such as motels, restaurants, or even a ...
11.13.2023 230: Breasia Terrell While it is often said that the most dangerous predators conceal themselves in plain sight, the unsettling reality is that not all of these people masquerade as harmless. Some have the convictions to back up their disturbing backgrounds, but still, ...
11.06.2023 229: Elaine Doyle During the 1980s, forensic science was still in its early stages, lacking the advanced techniques we have today. However, over the subsequent couple of decades, remarkable strides were made in the field. DNA testing, fingerprint analysis, and fibre testing emerged, ...
10.30.2023 228: Chelsea Bruck Halloween was fast approaching in Maybee, Michigan, on the 24th of October, 2014. In preparation, people were putting the final touches to their Halloween costumes and making sure that their candy bowls were well-stocked. That night, a massive Halloween party ...
10.23.2023 227: Ethan Stacy Nestled within Davis County, Utah, Layton stands as a vibrant city, intimately connected to the bustling heart of Salt Lake City. This commuter’s haven, with its approximately 80,000 residents, has carved its place on the map. However, in spring of ...
10.17.2023 Listen Now: MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries "Follow MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge the first 8 episodes, early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. The human body is a miracle. But when it’s not working, it ...
10.16.2023 226: Hannah Cornelius & Cheslin Marsh It was a quiet night in Stellebosch, a town located in the Western Cape of South Africa, on 27 May, 2017. University student, Hannah Cornelious, had offered her friend, Cheslin Marsh, a lift back home after a night out. As ...
10.09.2023 225: Richard Field & Lina Bolanos Once upon a time, Boston, Massachusetts, was marred by period of decay and rampant crime. Yet, as time progressed, a remarkable transformation swept through the city, turning it into a thriving epicentre. Modern apartment complexes sprang up, luring wealthy professionals ...
10.02.2023 224: Sebastian Kalinowski In August, 2021, detectives in Huddersfield, United Kingdom, were investigating a case where a teenage boy reportedly fell unconscious while in the bathtub. As they initiated their inquiry within the family residence, a peculiar discovery awaited them: surveillance cameras strategically ...
09.25.2023 223: Misty Cockerill & Tanya Smith Situated approximately 70 kilometres from Vancouver, Abbotsford stands as a bedroom community in Canada. The cityscape is marked by extensive farmlands, orchards, and rolling hills that lend to its quaint rural allure. However, in 1995, Abbotsford was shaken by a ...
09.22.2023 Listen Now: This Is Actually Happening What if you were trafficked into a cult...or were mauled by a grizzly bear...or were stabbed 27 times by a serial killer - what would you do? This is Actually Happening brings you extraordinary true stories of life-changing events told ...
09.18.2023 Listen Now: The Apology Line For fifteen years you could call a private number in Manhattan and anonymously apologize for anything. It was called The Apology Line. This is the story of the phone line and the man at the other end who became consumed ...
09.18.2023 222: June Fox-Roberts It was a quiet morning in the small village of Llantwit Fardre in Wales on 21 November, 2021. Abigail Fox-Roberts had become concerned after she couldn’t reach her mother, June, on the phone. She decided to drive over to her ...
09.11.2023 221: Anthony Avalos Numerous safeguards are established to protect vulnerable individuals, particularly children. In an ideal world, these systems work the way they are supposed to. Unfortunately, however, the child protection system is infallible, and when it fails, children are the ones left ...
09.04.2023 220: Roxanne Ellis & Michelle Abdill In the realm of human emotion, love knows no boundaries, and yet, acceptance remains a distant dream for some. In the 1990s, a gay couple sought refuge from mounting homophobia, leaving behind the confines of Colorado for the promises of ...
08.28.2023 219: Kenia Monge One night in April 2011, a man in Denver observed a large barrel emanating flames coming from the back of a bakery. He thought nothing of it at the time, but would soon learn that a teenager was missing from ...
08.21.2023 Listen Now - Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting When Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities suspect he was eaten by alligators but the true predators who took Mike may lurk much closer to home. The mystery of Mike’s disappearance might have faded from memory, if ...
08.21.2023 218: Robin Cornell & Lisa Story The Cape Coral Courtyard Condominiums in Cape Coral, Florida, comprise of one and two-story wood-paneled townhouses. They’re nestled at the end of a winding road and are shaded under large trees, just west of Viscaya Parkway. Madeline Munch was fast ...
08.14.2023 217: Joanne Witt On Friday the 11th of June, 2009, Joanne Witt’s co-workers were concerned when she failed to show up for work. Over the weekend, they routinely checked at her home. The air conditioning was switched on, but nobody answered the door. ...
08.07.2023 216: Christie Marceau Tracey Marceau had just woken up on the 7th of November, 2011, when she heard a knock at the front door of her home in Hillcrest, Auckland, New Zealand. When she opened up the front door, she saw a man ...
07.31.2023 215: Evelyn & Alex Hernandez It is widely acknowledged that disparities exist in missing person cases. When a victim fits the mold of an all-American, girl-next-door from an affluent family, their case tends to garner significantly more national attention. This reality was evident in two ...
07.24.2023 214: Father Ed Hinds On 23 October, 2009, the small town of Chatham, New Jersey, gathered at St. Patrick’s Church. They expected to see the priest, but they were met with an eerie silence. The search for the missing priest would reveal that darkness ...
07.17.2023 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 ...
07.17.2023 213: Reagan & Braxlynn Simmons Hancock On the morning of October 9, 2020, Jessica Brookes received an alarming phone call from her pregnant daughter’s husband in New Boston, Texas. Concern filled his voice as he explained that he couldn’t reach her and that their daughter had ...
07.10.2023 212: Brittany Zimmermann In times of peril, we rely on police to come to our aid swiftly and effectively when we call the emergency number. These numbers exist to ensure our safety and provide us with a sense of security. However, what happens ...
07.03.2023 211: Lola James It is a parents duty to ensure the safety and well-being of their child. This includes exercising the utmost caution when it comes to welcoming people into the home. Unfortunately, some parents put their own needs before the safety of ...
06.26.2023 210: Samantha & Tessara Crespi Creek Pine Drive is an upmarket residential neighbourhood located in Charlotte, North Carolina. It boasts of large single-family homes dotted along a tree-lined avenue. It’s the kind of place that most families can only ever dream of living, but for ...
06.19.2023 209: Rita Camilleri St. Clair, New South Wales, Australia, was enveloped in stillness on the night of 19 July, 2019, It was approaching midnight when the tranquility was pierced by piercing screams echoing up and down a neighbourhood. The screams were followed by ...
06.12.2023 208: Ashley Zhao China was governed by the Communist Party of China in the late 1990s, a regime that had held power since 1949. Consequently, a significant number of Chinese citizens emigrated from the country, with some choosing to settle in the United ...
06.07.2023 Introducing: Devil in the Dorm In late 2010, a middle-aged man moved into his daughter's college dorm and created what has all the hallmarks of a cult. Over the decade that followed, he extorted millions of dollars from vulnerable young adults through violence, psychological torture, ...
06.05.2023 207: Alexis Rasmussen In the autumn of 2011, a teenage girl from North Ogden, a quaint suburb in Utah, suddenly disappeared under mysterious circumstances while fulfilling her babysitting duties at a nearby household. As authorities delved into the unsettling case, their quest for ...
05.29.2023 206: Mariah Woods It was a dark and cold night in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on 26 November, 2017. That night, three-year-old Mariah Woods went to bed, but when her mother checked her bedroom the following morning, she was gone…SPONSORS -Glow Natural Wellness: Thank ...
05.22.2023 205: Janet & Richard Sweet The quaint town of Manchester, Iowa, was bathing in the warm glow of the early morning sun on Mother’s Day of 2012. Families across the town were getting together in celebration, but as the day wore on, an eerie hush ...
05.18.2023 Introducing: Morbid It’s all a lighthearted nightmare on the MORBID podcast. Hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, Morbid is a full dose of true crime with a splash of comedy.Join us all month long as we celebrate 5 years of MORBID ...
05.16.2023 Introducing: American Scandal: The "Kids for Cash" Kickback Scheme In the early 2000s, residents of northeastern Pennsylvania started to notice an alarming trend – children were being sent away to jail in high numbers, and for crimes so mild they might normally result in a grounding. The FBI began ...
05.15.2023 204: Susan Cadieux Snow blanketed the ground of St. Mary’s Churchyard School, London, Ontario, on 6 January, 1956. Susan Cadieux was playing outside the school with her two brothers when an unknown man approached them. The boys were momentarily distracted by a little ...
05.08.2023 203: Raneem Oudeh & Khaola Saleem Northdown Road is a residential neighoburhood located in Solihull, West Midlands. It consists of mostly 1970s terraced homes and detached homes and is just a stone’s throw from some of the town’s best schools, making it a desirable area for ...
05.01.2023 202: Stefanie Rengel Temperatures were dipping below freezing with the wind chill in Toronto, Canada, on the 1st of January, 2008. People all across the globe had just rung in the new year, but at around 6PM that evening, the first murder of ...
04.26.2023 Introducing The Fall Line: The Disappearance of Patrick “Pat” Allen Guild Part 1 Introducing The Fall Line: The Disappearance of Patrick “Pat” Allen Guild Part 1Patrick “Pat” Allen Guild moved to Nashville with dreams of making it big in the songwriting business. But things didn’t work out as he planned; he spent his ...
04.24.2023 201: Jordyn Dumont Bess Town Road is located on the outskirts of Bessemer City, North Carolina. It’s surrounded in rolling fields and dotted with various wooded areas. On the afternoon of 15 August, 2016, police were directed to the quaint road after a ...
04.17.2023 200: Levi and Christina Karlsen Yale Farm Road in the small town of Varick, New York, was quiet on the afternoon of 20 November, 2008. Karl and Cindy Karlsen had just returned home from a family funeral. Before they left, Karl’s son, Levi, had come ...
04.10.2023 199: Kelsie Schelling It was a cold and dark night in Denver, Colorado, on the 4th of February, 2013. A young woman had just finished up her shift at a local clothing store, when she climbed into her car and headed south to ...
04.03.2023 198: Cherish Perrywinkle On the night of 21 June, 2013, Rayne Perrywinkle was shopping with her three daughters in a Dollar Tree in Jacksonville, Florida. Money was tight and Rayne struggled to purchase the clothes that the girls were wanting. Nearby, a white-haired ...
03.27.2023 197: Savannah Leckie It was a dark July night in the village of Theodosia, Missouri, in 2017. Some residents in the small village noticed large flames emanating from a farm along County Road 905. It was a common occurrence to see bush-fires on ...
03.20.2023 196: Brittany Bearspaw Each year, millions of tourists flock to Canada to take in the breath-taking scenery. The Trans-Canada Highway travels through all ten provinces of Canada, making the county easily accessible. Near the foot of the Rocky Mountains lies Morley, a First ...
03.12.2023 195: The Chandos Crescent Murders Chandos Crescent in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, was quiet on the morning of 19 September, 2021. By 8AM, however, the neighbourhood was swarming with police officers, as a gruesome crime was being uncovered in one of the homes, a crime that would ...

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233: Maddy Middleton

Listen Now - Dr. Death: Bad Magic

Introducing the Jordan Harbinger Show

232: Ingrid Lyne

231: Billy Jack Gaither

230: Breasia Terrell

229: Elaine Doyle

228: Chelsea Bruck

227: Ethan Stacy

Listen Now: MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

226: Hannah Cornelius & Cheslin Marsh

225: Richard Field & Lina Bolanos

224: Sebastian Kalinowski

223: Misty Cockerill & Tanya Smith

Listen Now: This Is Actually Happening

Listen Now: The Apology Line

222: June Fox-Roberts

221: Anthony Avalos

220: Roxanne Ellis & Michelle Abdill

219: Kenia Monge

Listen Now - Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting

218: Robin Cornell & Lisa Story

217: Joanne Witt

216: Christie Marceau

215: Evelyn & Alex Hernandez

214: Father Ed Hinds

Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark"

213: Reagan & Braxlynn Simmons Hancock

212: Brittany Zimmermann

211: Lola James

210: Samantha & Tessara Crespi

209: Rita Camilleri

208: Ashley Zhao

Introducing: Devil in the Dorm

207: Alexis Rasmussen

206: Mariah Woods

205: Janet & Richard Sweet

Introducing: Morbid

Introducing: American Scandal: The "Kids for Cash" Kickback Scheme

204: Susan Cadieux

203: Raneem Oudeh & Khaola Saleem

202: Stefanie Rengel

Introducing The Fall Line: The Disappearance of Patrick “Pat” Allen Guild Part 1

201: Jordyn Dumont

200: Levi and Christina Karlsen

199: Kelsie Schelling

198: Cherish Perrywinkle

197: Savannah Leckie

196: Brittany Bearspaw

195: The Chandos Crescent Murders

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