Criminology

By Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford

What's Criminology about?

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 Moreford will give you every details of these infamous crimes. Each season is a new case told over 8-10 episodes.

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Joan Webster

10.24.2021

25-year-old Joan Webster vanished in 1981 in Massachusetts and was later found murdered. She was headed back to Harvard following the Thanksgiving break but never made it to her dorm. She was last seen outside of the airport trying to ...

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10.24.2021 Joan Webster 25-year-old Joan Webster vanished in 1981 in Massachusetts and was later found murdered. She was headed back to Harvard following the Thanksgiving break but never made it to her dorm. She was last seen outside of the airport trying to ...
10.17.2021 Marc O'Leary Marc O'Leary was a serial rapist who committed his crimes in multiple states. His very specific M.O. included taking digital pictures of his victims which ultimately led to his downfall. It took some good police work and DNA to finally ...
10.12.2021 Over My Dead Body: Fox Lake A small town cop known as “GI Joe” is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015 and quickly becomes a martyr in the national media. But when a dogged investigator and his team set out to get ...
10.10.2021 Asha Kreimer In September 2015, Asha Kreimer disappeared in California. Her boyfriend, friends, and family had been worried about her in the days and weeks leading up to her disappearance. They said that Asha was acting strangely. She was definitely not herself. ...
10.03.2021 "The Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez Before he was known as the "Golden State Killer", Joseph DeAngelo terrorized people all over the state of California. It was in Orange County that he was known as the Night Stalker. But while Joseph DeAngelo’s reign of terror was ...
09.28.2021 Introducing - This Is Actually Happening What would you do if a singular moment changed your life forever? This is Actually Happening is a weekly podcast from Wondery that features extraordinary life-changing stories told by the people who lived them. We’ve all had powerful moments in ...
09.26.2021 Gabby Petito The death of Gabby Petito has captured the attention of the world. She disappeared while on a trip with her fiance/boyfriend Brian Laundrie. They were traveling the country in a van and documenting their travels for a YouTube channel. But, ...
09.19.2021 The Murdaugh Murders The case of the Murdaugh family has captivated the nation and has dominated the headlines. The Murdaugh family has been influential in the town of Hampton, South Carolina for over a century. But a series of scandals over recent years ...
09.12.2021 Claudia Lawrence 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence disappeared in England in 2009. She was scheduled to be at work at 6 a.m. on Thursday, March 19, 2009, but failed to show up. The investigation into her disappearance that resulted has been heavily scrutinized. One ...
09.05.2021 The McStay Family Murders In 2010, Joseph and Summer McStay and their two young children vanished in California. The police had trouble figuring out exactly what happened to the family of four. Over the years, many theories were floated including that a grainy video ...
08.31.2021 Introducing: Suspect A big Halloween party at an apartment complex in Redmond, Washington. Themed rooms and costumed partygoers. But by the end of the party, one of the hosts is dead. The police look to the partiers as the prime suspects: was ...
08.29.2021 Karlie Guse 16-year-old Karlie Guse disappeared from her Chalfant, CA home in October 2018. She had just moved in with her father and stepmother a couple of months prior to her disappearance. Karlie's stepmother, Melissa Guse, claims that she woke up to ...
08.22.2021 The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre On February 10th, 1990, two men entered the Las Cruces Bowl, a family-run bowling alley, and held everyone inside the building at gunpoint. The two men stole some cash, shot all seven people inside the building, including young children, and ...
08.17.2021 Introducing - Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man Paolo is a smart and handsome surgeon, renowned for his ability to perform surgeries that transform his patients’ lives. When television producer Benita covers him for a story, he’ll transform her life too, but not in the ways she expects. ...
08.15.2021 The Brave Survivors We're tackling two different cases in this episode. Both of them deal with men who perpetrated unspeakable violence against people who loved them. Both cases involve young survivors who lived through their attacks and were able to take the stand ...
08.08.2021 The Murder of Megan Nichols On July 3, 2014, 15-year-old Megan Nichols disappeared from her Fairfield, Illinois home. Megan was dating an 18-year-old named Brodey Murbarger, and the relationship had caused a rift between Megan and her mother. There were a few cryptic clues left ...
08.01.2021 The Lake Bodom Murders In 1960, three young people, Maila Bjorklund, Anja Tuulikki Maki, and Seppo Boisman were murdered in Finland while they were camping. A fourth person, Nils Gustafsson, who was with the group was injured but survived, and later became a suspect. ...
07.25.2021 The Party of a Lifetime In 2011, Florida teenager Tyler Hadley killed his parents and then held a massive party at his house. Many people, including Tyler, called it the party of a lifetime. What the other partygoers didn't know was that Tyler's parents, Blake ...
07.13.2021 Introducing: Killer Psyche When a shocking crime occurs, people ask “WHY?” Was it about power, ego, or revenge? On KILLER PSYCHE, retired FBI criminal profiler Candice DeLong draws on her decades of experience to reveal why these murderers and criminals committed these acts. ...
07.11.2021 The Teacher Murders In 1973 two teachers were murdered, one in New York City, and the other in Indiana. While both murders were extremely brutal, they were covered very differently. A Catholic school teacher named Roseann Quinn was murdered in New York City. ...
06.27.2021 Autumn Lee Stone On August 30th, 2019, the body of Autumn Lee Stone was found in Green Lake in Seattle, Washington. She was found by a man paddleboarding who thought at first that she was a turtle in the water. When the police ...
06.20.2021 Manuel Gehring Manuel Gehring was a man who was not happy with his life. He had a hard time holding down a job. He wasn't happy that his marriage to his wife Teri had ended and that she had found and married ...
06.13.2021 Bobby Bizup In 1958, 10-year-old Bobby Bizup went missing while at a Catholic summer camp in Boulder County, Colorado. It was assumed he had wandered off and searchers would find him quickly, but, that didn't happen. Parts of Bobby's remains were later ...
06.06.2021 Speedway The town of Speedway, Indiana is known for racing with the Indianapolis Speedway being a huge attraction. But, in 1978, Speedway gained attention for a number of high-profile crimes. In September of that year, a serial bomber terrorized the area ...
05.30.2021 Christy Crystal Creek Christy Crystal Creek was the name given to an unidentified female murder victim found near the town of Bonner in Missoula County, Missouri in 1985. She was named after the road near where she was found. Investigators had very little ...
05.23.2021 The Murder of Anita Taylor In 1966, Anita Taylor was murdered inside her home in Springfield, Ohio. Her husband came home from work to find her clinging to life and their infant son in his crib, alive, but with a broken leg. Anita was pronounced ...
05.18.2021 Introducing: The Vaping Fix Two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set out to rid the world of smoking with an incredible new product. The device stands to disrupt the tobacco industry and make them rich, until it falls into the wrong hands and lives are ...
05.16.2021 The Torso Killer Serial killer Richard Cottingham earned the moniker of "The Torso Killer" for his crimes. To the outside world, Richard seemed like a professional and a family man. But, he was unfaithful to his wife and he had urges deep inside ...
05.09.2021 Nick and Lisa Masee Nick and Lisa Masee were living what appeared to those around them to be a great life in Vancouver, Canada. But, even though they brought in a substantial income, they were deeply in debt. In 1994, the two began acting ...
05.04.2021 Introducing Confronting: Columbine The events of April 20th, 1999 shaped our nation and altered the American narrative. One of America’s deadliest school shootings took place in a small town in Colorado, leaving thirteen dead and another twenty-one severely injured. And it was all ...
05.02.2021 Baby Hope Baby Hope was the name given to a four-year-old little girl found dead in a cooler near the Henry Hudson Parkway. Baby Hope's body was found by construction workers in Manhattan, New York, in 1991. Authorities found witnesses but were ...
04.25.2021 The Canadian Spree Killers In 2019, Canadian teenagers Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod embarked on a deadly crime spree. They told their families that they were headed to the Yukon territory to look for work. But, after stopping to buy a semi-automatic rifle, they ...
04.20.2021 Wondery: In God We Lust A woman named Becki is lounging by the pool at the Fontainebleau Hotel when she decides to proposition a strapping pool attendant. Go on a date with her...and her husband. What begins as an unconventional proposition will soon throw them ...
04.18.2021 The Dardeen Family Murders In 1987, the small town of Ina, Illinois was rocked by the senseless and brutal murders of the Dardeen family. When 29-year-old Keith Dardeen failed to show up for work, his parents called the police. The police made a shocking ...
04.11.2021 Danger Lurks on Interstate 80 In Nevada, Interstate 80 runs through stretches of desert. The desert can be a very unforgiving place with temperature swings and dangers that await those who venture through it. There have been a large number of unexplained disappearances and deaths ...
04.04.2021 The Circleville Letter Writer In 1976, residents of Circleville, Ohio began receiving obscene and threatening letters that contained details and rumors regarding some of the residents in town. For residents of Circleville, it wasn’t a serial killer that shattered their sense of safety and ...
03.30.2021 Introducing: Spy Affair A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends. But who is Maria Butina? And who is she working for? As Maria gets closer ...
03.28.2021 Holly Branagan High school senior Holly Branagan was murdered inside her Bethlehem, Pennsylvania home on March 28, 1979. She was brutally stabbed to death in a horrific manner, but, her murder case was overshadowed by the partial meltdown that same day at ...
03.21.2021 Mostly Harmless In 2018, an unidentified hiker, which many began called Mostly Harmless, was found in Florida and what followed was a search for his identity. It was discovered that the hiker had been traveling the Appalachian Trail. People began to come ...
03.17.2021 Introuducing: MAN-Slaughter MAN-Slaughter tells intertwining stories about how one gunshot on a cold Wisconsin night in 1970 dramatically changed multiple lives. A bullet brutally tore through decorated law enforcement veteran LaVerne Stordock. Decades later, his niece, Dorothy Marcic, transformed herself into an ...
03.14.2021 The Orange Sock Murders In 1982, 29-year-old Barbara Jo Oberholtzer and 21-year-old Annette Kay Schnee were both last seen in the town of Breckinridge, Colorado. Both were found murdered and their cases were linked by a pair of orange socks. A matching orange sock ...
03.07.2021 The Jeff Davis 8 Between 2005 and 2009, 8 women were found murdered in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. There were eight women from Jennings, Louisiana who were murdered in those four years and they are referred to collectively as "The Jennings 8” or "The ...
02.28.2021 The Tiede Family Murders The Tiede family spent quality family time each year at their cabin in Oakley, Utah. Rolf and Kay Tiede had two daughters, Linae and Tricia, and a son named Shaun. In December 1990, The Tiede family went to their cabin ...
02.27.2021 The Tiede Family Murders The Tiede family spent quality family time each year at their cabin in Oakley, Utah. Rolf and Kay Tiede had two daughters, Linae and Tricia, and a son named Shaun. In December 1990, The Tiede family went to their cabin ...
02.21.2021 The Murder of Stephanie Crowe On January 21, 1998, 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe was found dead in her bedroom. She had been fatally stabbed multiple times while her family slept. Multiple people would eventually be charged with her murder, including members of Stephanie's own family. Join ...
02.20.2021 The Murder of Stephanie Crowe On January 21, 1998, 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe was found dead in her bedroom. She had been fatally stabbed multiple times while her family slept. Multiple people would eventually be charged with her murder, including members of Stephanie's own family. Join ...
02.14.2021 The Murder of Kelsey Berreth The Thanksgiving holiday in 2018 should have been a joyous time for 29-year-old mother, Kelsey Berreth. She was engaged to be married and had a little girl with her fiance Patrick Frazee. But, Kelsey went missing and the police began ...
02.13.2021 The Murder of Kelsey Berreth The Thanksgiving holiday in 2018 should have been a joyous time for 29-year-old mother, Kelsey Berreth. She was engaged to be married and had a little girl with her fiance Patrick Frazee. But, Kelsey went missing and the police began ...
02.07.2021 The Sumter County Does In August 1976, two bodies, one male and one female, were found off the side of the road east of Sumter, South Carolina. Neither of the bodies had any identification with them. Police determined that both individuals had been shot ...
02.06.2021 The Sumter County Does In August 1976, two bodies, one male and one female, were found off the side of the road east of Sumter, South Carolina. Neither of the bodies had any identification with them. Police determined that both individuals had been shot ...

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Criminology episodes:

Joan Webster

Marc O'Leary

Over My Dead Body: Fox Lake

Asha Kreimer

"The Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez

Introducing - This Is Actually Happening

Gabby Petito

The Murdaugh Murders

Claudia Lawrence

The McStay Family Murders

Introducing: Suspect

Karlie Guse

The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

Introducing - Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man

The Brave Survivors

The Murder of Megan Nichols

The Lake Bodom Murders

The Party of a Lifetime

Introducing: Killer Psyche

The Teacher Murders

Autumn Lee Stone

Manuel Gehring

Bobby Bizup

Speedway

Christy Crystal Creek

The Murder of Anita Taylor

Introducing: The Vaping Fix

The Torso Killer

Nick and Lisa Masee

Introducing Confronting: Columbine

Baby Hope

The Canadian Spree Killers

Wondery: In God We Lust

The Dardeen Family Murders

Danger Lurks on Interstate 80

The Circleville Letter Writer

Introducing: Spy Affair

Holly Branagan

Mostly Harmless

Introuducing: MAN-Slaughter

The Orange Sock Murders

The Jeff Davis 8

The Tiede Family Murders

The Tiede Family Murders

The Murder of Stephanie Crowe

The Murder of Stephanie Crowe

The Murder of Kelsey Berreth

The Murder of Kelsey Berreth

The Sumter County Does

The Sumter County Does

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