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Parades are supposed to bring people together. Families line the streets, music plays, and communities celebrate. But in three horrifying cases, those celebrations turned into mass-casualty attacks.

This week on All the Damn Crime, we're covering the 2022 Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting, where Robert Crimo III killed seven people and wounded dozens; the 2016 Berlin Christmas Market attack, where Anis Amri drove a hijacked truck into a crowded market; and the 2015 Oklahoma State University Homecoming parade attack, where Adacia Chambers drove into the crowd, killing four people and injuring dozens.

Three attacks. Three communities forever changed. We break down what happened, who was responsible, the investigations, and the questions these tragedies left behind.

Because sometimes the most frightening thing about a public celebration is how quickly everything can change.

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This week on All the Damn Crime, we're exploring paraphilic disorders and the disturbing psychology of necrophilia before diving into one of the strangest criminal cases you'll hear.

In 1979, Karen Greenlee was working as an apprentice embalmer in Sacramento, California, when she stole a hearse carrying the body of 33-year-old John Mercure—and disappeared. When authorities found her, they uncovered a confession describing sexual encounters with numerous deceased men. But here's the shocking part: California had no specific law against necrophilia at the time.

So what exactly is necrophilia? What do we know about the psychology behind it? And how did Greenlee face such limited criminal penalties for her actions?

We're getting into the psychology, the disturbing details, and the legal loophole at the center of a case that's unlike anything we've covered before.

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This week on All the Damn Crime, we're looking at Reginald McFadden, a convicted murderer whose release from prison became a cautionary tale about clemency, parole, and the consequences of getting it wrong.

At just 16, McFadden took part in the murder of 66-year-old Sonia Rosenbaum. After serving nearly 25 years of a life sentence, his sentence was commuted, and in July 1994, he walked free. Just 92 days later, he was arrested for two more murders and a brutal sexual assault.

How did McFadden convince officials he deserved a second chance? What went wrong in the process that put him back on the streets? And how did his case help change Pennsylvania's clemency system?

We're breaking down the crimes, the missed warning signs, and the decisions that had consequences far beyond one man's release.

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This week on All the Damn Crime, we're going back to Oklahoma in 1978 for one of the state's most infamous murder cases: the Sirloin Stockade murders.

Roger Dale Stafford, his wife Verna, and his brother Harold robbed a Sirloin Stockade in Oklahoma City and murdered six employees as the restaurant was closing for the night. But that wasn't the beginning of the story. Just weeks earlier, the Lorenz family had been murdered after stopping to help a stranded motorist on Interstate 35.

Nine people were dead. And for months, investigators didn't know the two crimes were connected.

We break down what happened, how investigators finally connected the cases, the Stafford family, and the evidence that brought the killers to justice. And we'll talk about the case's renewed attention in 2026 after Verna Stafford, the last surviving perpetrator, sought parole.

This is one of those Oklahoma cases that sounds almost unbelievable—until you realize it actually happened.

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This week on All the Damn Crime, we're talking about Christa Pike, the only woman currently on Tennessee's death row, whose execution is scheduled for September 30, 2026. Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer when Pike was 18. If carried out, it would be Tennessee's first execution of a woman in more than 200 years. 

We break down Pike's crime, her decades on death row, her recent legal challenges and clemency request, and what's happening as her execution date approaches.

Then we turn to Bryan Kohberger, who is attempting to withdraw his guilty plea in the University of Idaho murders, and revisit the infamous Slender Man stabbing, in which two 12-year-old girls lured their classmate into a Wisconsin park and stabbed her in 2014.

Three very different cases—and plenty to talk about.

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Netflix's Death of the Pastor's Wife has brought the story of Mica Miller back into the national spotlight. This week, we take a closer look at the documentary and the complicated story behind it.

Mica died in April 2024 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but her death came after a turbulent marriage and separation from pastor John-Paul Miller. Friends and family interviewed in the documentary describe allegations of controlling and abusive behavior, while prosecutors have separately accused John-Paul of cyberstalking Mica before her death. He has pleaded not guilty. 

What did the documentary uncover? What questions remain? And how much can we actually know about what happened during Mica's final months?

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This week on All the Damn Crime, we're covering two breaking stories involving devastating acts of violence against families.

First, we head to Montana, where 44-year-old Alan Michael Smith allegedly opened fire on his own family during a gathering near Billings, killing eight relatives—including four children—before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Smith had reportedly been asked to leave his parents' home weeks earlier, but authorities have not established that as a motive. 

Then we turn to Oregon, where authorities say Benjamin Parker allegedly killed his girlfriend, members of her family, and friends in a quintuple homicide before fleeing to Washington, where he was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators say Parker had recently been involved in a serious fight with his girlfriend and had been told to leave the property. 

And because no episode of All the Damn Crime stays in one lane, we'll also discuss some true crime-adjacent stories, including the horrific crimes of Ronald Gene Simmons and the bizarre and infamous Enumclaw horse case.

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Joe Arridy was 23 years old when Colorado executed him for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. Arridy had an intellectual disability and was highly suggestible. Police obtained a confession implicating him in the rape and murder of 15-year-old Dorothy Drain, but evidence later showed serious problems with the confession and with the prosecution's case. 

Even as his execution approached, Arridy's attorneys fought desperately to stop it. He received nine stays of execution before finally being killed in the gas chamber on January 6, 1939. More than seven decades later, he was pardoned by the governor of Colorado.

It's a heartbreaking story about false confessions, the death penalty, and what happens when the justice system gets it catastrophically wrong.

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Edgar Allan Poe spent his career writing about murder, madness, mysterious deaths, and detectives searching for answers. Then, in 1849, Poe himself became the subject of a mystery no detective has ever solved.

He disappeared during a trip to Baltimore and resurfaced days later in a state of severe distress. He was taken to a hospital, where his condition deteriorated. His doctors couldn't establish a clear cause of death, and Poe never provided a coherent explanation of what happened to him.

One of the most intriguing theories is cooping, a form of 19th-century election fraud in which people could be kidnapped, intoxicated, beaten, disguised, and forced to vote repeatedly. Poe was found on Election Day near a polling place—a coincidence that has fueled the theory for generations. 

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 James Aren Duckett was convicted of one horrific murder—but investigators believed there may have been more. After Teresa McAbee was found dead in 1987, evidence led police to the officer who had been the last person seen with her. Duckett was convicted and sentenced to death, while investigators later connected him to the deaths of other women and girls. He was never charged in those additional cases, leaving a disturbing question: How many victims could James Aren Duckett have had? We examine the evidence, the unanswered questions, and the case of a police officer who became a convicted murderer—and a suspected serial killer. 

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