A whirlwind tour through the fascinating - and slightly gruesome - world of Forensic Entomology! We talk about what bugs visit a body and when. Then we talk about how insects have helped convict - and exonerate people! Vincent Brothers couldn't hide his murderous ways from a tell-tale grasshopper. And, Steven Truscott got his name cleared after half a century.

In the closing years of the Wild West, Jim Miller ran rampant in Texas as a killer for hire, a trusty double-barrel shotgun as his favorite weapon. Among many victims, he killed his brother-in-law, took part in a bloody feud in Pecos, and hired the best lawyers to help him escape every time—until frontier justice finally got the best of him in Oklahoma.

In 1962, three men escaped Alcatraz - something that was supposedly impossible. They were never seen again, and people still debate whether they survived. We walk through the escape, and a few other escapes that prove it was entirely possible. In fact, the first recorded escape attempt was a partial success - with one man swimming across the bay in the 1860s.

We break the myth of the Female poisoner by bringing you a few tales of men who chose this way to kill. A modern day poisoning by George Trepal—It doesn't take a Mensa member to realize poisoning your neighbors isn't the way to handle a spat. But George must've missed class that day! Then, join us for a tale from poison's Victorian heyday - Have a little Thomas Neill Cream with that tea!

Take a long winding road through the history of Satanism, from the origins of the word to the 1980s Satanic Panic! Along the way, we visit witch trials, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons and, of course, the Church of Satan--founded by Anton LaVey. A longer episode, but a devil of a good time!

Some things are not what they seem! Roger Touhy spent thirty years in prison for the faked kidnapping of "Jake the Barber" Factor. The Balloon Boy Hoax had a nation riveted in suspense for a night. Fast food will never be the same after hearing about the finger found in a bowl of Chili. And, the Tovrea Castle murder that never was!

Vodoun, or 'voodoo,' is a respectable religion like any other. We discuss the the undeserved reputation of zombies, human sacrifice, and spooky shenanigans--with it's origin in events like the Affaire de Bizoton, the ax murderer Clementine Barnabet, and a voodoo craze of the early 20th Century. It carries on in stories like Zack and Addie's tragic New Orleans romance.

We start with Ozzy's antics and Bill Preston's insurance fraud. Then we dive into the disappearance of Walter Scott, a 1960s one-hit-wonder who sang about the cheater, strangely predicting the circumstances of his own demise. Creepy! From there, Michelle discusses Jam Master Jay and Charles digs into the tragic story of Pantera's Dimebag Darell.

Where did clowns go so horribly wrong in our lives? Dive into the history of their downfall, from Edgar Allan Poe's Hopfrog to the recent Clown Panic. Good clowns' reputations have been ruined by Pogo's collection of bodies beneath his house. Crotchy the Clown didn't help by mortifying Nebraska's Supreme Court. In Florida, a clown shot a woman at her own home. We even dig into the suspect history of the word, coulrophobia. Shakes the Clown had nothing on these characters!

Michelle and Charles talk mummies! Twentieth-century mummies! Ancient cannibal Chinchorro mummies! Smoked mummies of Papua New Guinea! Victorians eating mummies! Join us for tales like Elmer McCurdy: the bandit that wouldn't give up, And Eva Perón's wandering mummy. Good lord, it gets creepy! So many mummies, we ran out of time!