True Crime Obsessed

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The true crime / comedy podcast YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE. We recap your favorite true crime documentaries with humor, sass, and heart. FROM VULTURE: "It’s not wrong to laugh when you’re listening to a true-crime podcast. Or at least I hope it isn’t, because if almost crashing my car while listening to True Crime Obsessed is wrong, I don’t want to be right." Hear our take on "Abducted in Plain Sight," "The Ted Bundy Tapes,"Dirty John: The Dirty Truth" and so many more.

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313: Slayed in Soho: The Mu...

09.19.2023

When Theresa Cha, an aspiring writer and painter in the vibrant Soho art scene of the early '80s, is found murdered just two days after her debut book is published, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. But was he ...

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09.19.2023 313: Slayed in Soho: The Murder of Theresa Cha (From New York Homicide) When Theresa Cha, an aspiring writer and painter in the vibrant Soho art scene of the early '80s, is found murdered just two days after her debut book is published, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. But was he ...
09.12.2023 312: The Murder of Brittanee Drexel (Dateline's "The Last Walk) It was a mystery that took 12 years to solve. In April 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel headed to Myrtle Beach with a group of older friends for spring break. The trip wasn't going well--she wasn't getting along with the people ...
09.05.2023 311: Truth And Lies: Waco David Koresh said he was the Messiah. .His followers believed. They were willing to die for him. So when the government guns and tanks rolled in to liberate his cult, his people believed The Apocalypse was here and it was ...
08.31.2023 Who Killed Robert Wone Four men in a house. One of them is them is murdered. Who is the killer? 32-year-old Robert Wone is stabbed 3 times in the middle of the night while spending the night at the home of his best friend, ...
08.29.2023 310: Sherri Papini: Lies Lies and More Lies On November 2, 2016, 34-year-old Sherri Papini vanished while out for a jog. Three weeks later, she reappeared on the side of the highway in the middle of the night. Beaten and bruised, she told a horrific story of being ...
08.23.2023 Our Interview With Terra Newell from "Dirty John" Terra Newell may be best known for taking down "Dirty John" Mehan when he attacked her in a parking garage in 2016, but she is so SO much more that that. In the years since that incident, Terra has used ...
08.22.2023 Dirty John: The Dirty Truth When Debra Newell met John Meehan on dating site for the 50+ crowd, he seemed too good to be true. A handsome, fit, successful doctor? She was interested. But, beginning with their first date, there were warning signs...something wasn't quite ...
08.15.2023 309: Who Killed Angie Dodge: Keith Morrison Investigates On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found brutally murdered in her home. Quickly, her good friend, 20-year-old Chris Tapp is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But Angie's mother is convinced Chris is innocent (and she's right!) ...
08.08.2023 308: The Disappearance of Maya Millete 30 year old wife and mother of three, Maya Millete, was last seen on January 7, 2021. In the weeks before, her marriage had been falling apart. And on the day she vanished, she had called a divorce attorney. The ...
08.01.2023 307: Money Shot: The PornHub Story Pornhub is the tenth most visited website in the world. But you probably would have guessed that. But what you might not have guessed is that there's a dark secret that powers the website that they don't want you to ...
07.25.2023 306: Tragic Beauty: The Death (or murder?) Of Anna Nicole Smith Anna Nicole Smith was an icon--a bombshell--whose rise to international superstardom was as fast an unexpected as her tragic and untimely death. The world thought they knew her--a "dumb blonde" gold digger who would have done anything to become rich ...
07.20.2023 Wild Crime: The Mysterious Death (Or Murder?) Of Toni Mid-afternoon on September 29, 2012, 56-year-old Harold Henthorn made a terrifying call to 911. He was in the middle of the Rocky Mountain National Forrest with his wife Toni...and she had just taken a brutal fall off a very high ...
07.18.2023 An Interview With Collier Landry of "A Murder In Mansfield" FAM!! I am so excited that I got a chance to sit down with our friend, Collier Landry, to get the full story on the making of his documentary "A Murder In Mansfield." As you know, the documentary tells the ...
07.18.2023 305: A Murder In Mansfield On December 31, 1989, 11 year old Collier Landry woke up to the sound of his father murdering his mother, Noreen. When she was nowhere to be found the next day, it seemed like nobody believed Collier and the police ...
07.11.2023 304: Amber: The Girl Behind The Alert You've heard of the Amber Alert, but have you heard of Amber Hagerman? Hagerman was the 9-year-old girl who's abduction and murder was the impetus for the alert system that has now saved the lives of over1000 children. In this ...
07.04.2023 303: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst In October 2001, dismembered body parts began washing ashore on a beach in Galveston, Texas. Shortly thereafter, Manhattan Real Estate Millionaire-AND SUPREME WEIRDO--Robert Durst was arrested for the murder and dismemberment. Though he would eventually BE ACQUITTED EVEN THOUGH HE ...
06.27.2023 302: The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker It's the story of how one young guy went from overnight internet celebrity to brutal murderer in just three months. In 2013, a young man named Kai became an internet sensation when--wielding a hatchet--he saved a woman from the grips ...
06.20.2023 301: Kidnapped At Birth: The Carlina White Story (From Beyond The Headlines) Carlina White was just 19 days on on August 4, 1987 when she was kidnapped from the Harlem hospital where her loving parents had taken her in order to treat a high fever. The woman who kidnapped Carlina raised her ...
06.13.2023 300: Mass Murderer or Misconception: Who Was Patient Zero? For decades, one man has been blamed for bringing AIDS to the United States and knowingly spreading is from coast to coast. He's known as Patient Zero. He's been vilified as a narcissistic, sex crazed, maniac without whom AIDS might ...
06.06.2023 299: The Final Days of Whitney Houston At 3:30 pm On February 11, 2012, 46 year old Whitney Houston--the singing legend and icon--was found unconscious and unresponsive in the bathtub of her room at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She was pronounced dead within the hour. According to ...
05.30.2023 298: The Pez Outlaw What must it be like to have a dream and to bring that dream to life through grit and the sheer force of will? The Pez outlaw certainly knows. Steve Glew, said outlaw, dreamt of leaving his boring, dreary life ...
05.23.2023 297: The Disappearance of the Milbrook Twins Danette and Jeanette Milbrook, 15-year-old twins, vanished off the street of Augusta, Georgia on March 18, 1990. It's one of the only cases of missing twins in American history, but their case was scarcely investigated and most people have never ...
05.16.2023 296: I Love You, You Hate Me In 1988, a suburban mom named Sheryl Leach created Barney the Dinosaur as a simple, loving character that she thought her son would love. Within a few years Barney was everywhere. The character and TV show was a billion dollar ...
05.09.2023 295: The Hillside Strangler(s) In just over a year, 10 women and girls were found murdered on the hillsides of Los Angles County. There were precious few clues, and, terrifyingly, no pattern. Anyone could be a target. No one was safe. Who was this ...
05.02.2023 294: God Forbid: The Pool Boy Sex Scandal That Brought Down A Dynasty A Miami pool boy finds himself trapped in a seven-year affair with a charming older woman and her husband, the Evangelical Trump stalwart Jerry Falwell Jr. As he becomes increasingly entangled with the Falwell’s seemingly perfect lives, he quickly realizes ...
04.25.2023 293: Killing Patrick Duffey (...And The Bugs Bunny Defense) On a cool night in Los Angeles in 2007, Linda Duffey shot her husband Patrick in the head while he lay comfortably on the couch. She would say it was a terrible accident. And at first investigators believed her. But ...
04.18.2023 292: Capturing The Killer Nurse Charles "Charlie" Cullen, aka "The Killer Nurse" is suspected of killing over 400 unsuspecting patients at various hospitals where he worked over his 30 year nursing career. This makes him the most prolific serial killer in WORLD HISTORY. He did ...
04.11.2023 The Abduction and Murder of Kristin Smart 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 ...
04.04.2023 291: The Boston Strangler In the early 60s, a madman was on the loose in Boston. In the span of 2 years, he's know to have brutally raped and murdered at least 13 women in their own homes. The killer was a monster who ...
03.29.2023 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!! FAM!!! WE'RE GOING ON TOUR!! WE'RE HITTING THE ROAD THIS SPRING AND SUMMER AND WE'RE COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU! ANNNNNNN!!! WE'RE COVERING "THE JINX." If you've seen us live before, you know you don't want to miss this, ...
03.28.2023 290: Catching A Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur Bruce McArthur was many things: friend, grandfather, Mall Santa, landscaper, and RUTHLESS SERIAL KILLER who buried body parts in the yards of his posh clientele. This is the true story of the race to catch Toronto's most prolific serial killer. ...
03.21.2023 The Murdaugh Murders (Dateline) 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 ...
03.14.2023 289: Killings In A College Town: The University of Idaho Murders (From Dateline) On the morning of November 13, 2022, students at the University of Idaho woke up to horrifying news: four students had been brutally, viciously murdered in a home they shared just six blocks from campus. Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan ...
03.13.2023 "Crimes of the Centuries" Returns for Season 3! Hey, Fam!! We're so thrilled that Crimes of the Centuries from the Obsessed Network is back for Season 3! Join host Amber Hunt each week as she dives deep into a case that was huge when it happened but somehow ...
03.09.2023 House of Hammer Remember back in 2021 when it was revealed that Armie Hammer--that guy from the Facebook movie and "Call Me By Your Name"--had been abusing women for years, cheating on his wife, and, oh, was maybe a cannibal? That's what this ...
03.07.2023 288: Web of Death: The Murder of Elnora Griffin On the evening of July 23, 1993, Elnora Griffin was murdered in her home in Tyler, Texas. The crime was so brutal, some first responders, for their own good, were actually kept from entering the crime scene. Quickly, Elnora's neighbor, ...
02.28.2023 287: The Crime Against Pam and Tommy: Rich and Shameless Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were two of the most famous people in the world in 1995. That year, a contractor who had been fired from job on their home, broke in and stole a safe. The safe contained a ...
02.21.2023 286: Who Killed Jam Master Jay? As the DJ behind the iconic group RUN DMC, Jam Master Jay was a genius, a trailblazer, and for the people of Hollis, Queens, a hometown hero who never forgot where he came from. So how is it possible that ...
02.14.2023 285: The Real Bling Ring: Part 2 Listen, in part 2, celebrities like Orlando Bloom are here to kick some freaking ass...so that's awesome. Not to blame the victims here, but WHY DON'T CELEBRITIES LOCK THEIR DOORS? Anyway, meet Nick and Rachel, two bored, celebrity obsessed, high ...
02.07.2023 284: The Real Bling Ring Not to blame the victims here, but WHY DON'T CELEBRITIES LOCK THEIR DOORS? Anyway, meet Nick and Rachel, two bored, celebrity obsessed, high schoolers who decide it would be cool to break into the homes of celebrities like Paris Hilton, ...
01.31.2023 283: Murder at the Burger Joint Four teenagers are kidnapped from their job at the local burger joint and then murdered in the woods. Decades later, we still don't know what happened. But with so many witnesses, how is that possible? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On ...
01.24.2023 282: Operation Flagrant Foul OHHHHHH BOY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SPORTSBALL AGAIN! All his life, Tim Donaghy wanted to be a referee in the NBA. Only 50 people get that job, and he was one of them. And there's only one cardinal rule for ...
01.17.2023 281: Serial Killer: The Murders Of Joel Rifkin On June 28, 1993, New York State Troopers notice a truck driving without a license plate. When they pull the driver over, they discover the body of Tiffany Bresciani under a tarp in the truck's bed. With Rifkin arrested, authorities ...
01.10.2023 280: The McMartin Preschool Trial Imagine being charged with a horrendous crime that you did not commit? Then your whole family is publicly investigated for seven years. AND THEN you go to trial, which lasts another three years. This is what happened to the McMartin ...
01.03.2023 279: The Happy Face Killer: Mind of A Monster On January 22, 1990, the body of 23 year old Tanuja Bennett is discovered in a wooded area known as the Columbia Gorge near Portland, Oregon. Soon a woman named Laverne Pavlinac would confess to helping her husband commit the ...
12.22.2022 278: The Murder of Amy Mullis Hog farmer, Todd Mullis, claimed his wife fell on a four-pronged corn rake and died, but when investigators found more than four holes in Amy Mullis’ body, they knew her death was no accident. And their 13-year-old son may hold ...
12.20.2022 277: 'Twas The Fight Before Christmas THIS. EPISODE. IS. WILD. Meet Jeremy Morris, or "Mr. Christmas" as he calls himself. He LOVES to decorate his house for the holidays. And he loves to make it the biggest and brightest spectacle this side of the north pole. ...
12.15.2022 276: The Murder of The Farmer's Wife When Shirley Carter was found murdered in her farmhouse kitchen, her husband Bill was considered a prime suspect. But the husband pointed the finger at someone else--his son Jason. Jason said he had an alibi, but how strong was it? ...
12.13.2022 275: The Most Hated Man On The Internet: Part 2 Don't worry, this one ends with ANONYMOUS RUINING THIS GUY'S LIFE. Anyway...In 2010, a 24 year old man named Hunter Moore launched the website IsAnyoneUp.com. The site was built to allow people to anonymously post nude photos of other people ...
12.08.2022 274: Cheerleader On Trial High school senior Skylar Richardson told no one of her pregnancy. But when a newborn's body was found buried in the family's backyard, Skylar was charged with murder. FAMMMM!! OBSESSED FEST '23 TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE!! Obsessed Fest '23 ...

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