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 Morford will give you every details of these infamous crimes. New episodes come out every Saturday night at 10 PM.

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Lynette Dawson

09.25.2022

Lynette Dawson disappeared in Australia in 1982. Her husband Chris came under suspicion, but the authorities couldn't put together enough evidence against him to charge him and take him to trial. Damaging information came out about Chris Dawson over the ...

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09.25.2022 Lynette Dawson Lynette Dawson disappeared in Australia in 1982. Her husband Chris came under suspicion, but the authorities couldn't put together enough evidence against him to charge him and take him to trial. Damaging information came out about Chris Dawson over the ...
09.18.2022 The Bodies In Lake Mead The water level of Lake Mead, near Las Vegas, Nevada, along with other lakes in the West and SouthWest US, has reached dangerously low levels. Some areas are experiencing a "megadrought," and it has been called the worst drought in ...
09.11.2022 The West Mesa Murders In 2009, the bodies of eleven women were unearthed in an area of Albuquerque, New Mexico, called the West Mesa. Many of the women were identified as missing persons who had been on the radar of police for many years. ...
09.04.2022 The Boston Strangler From 1962 to 1964, the Boston Strangler terrorized the Boston area, praying mostly on older and vulnerable women. The police eventually connected the murders due to the signature methods that this predator used. Many of the women were strangled with ...
08.28.2022 The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Davis Dorothy Davis died at the Fort Lewis Army base in Washington State in 1991. Her death was originally ruled a suicide because that's what the scene inside her bedroom suggested. But, as more pieces of the pictures came into focus, ...
08.21.2022 The Isdal Woman In 1970, a family hiking in Norway stumbled upon the burned body of a woman. Police had very little to work with to try to identify this woman. There were, however, items scattered around the woman's body that appeared to ...
08.14.2022 Robert Hansen In the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Hansen hunted women in the last frontier of Alaska. He lured women with offers of large amounts of money for sex. Once a woman got into a car with Robert Hansen, they were trapped. ...
08.07.2022 The Lyon Sisters In 1975, 2 sisters, 10-year-old Katherine Lyon and 12-year-old Sheila Lyon, disappeared in Wheaton, Maryland. The sisters had gone to the local mall to see the Easter decorations and eat lunch, but they never made it home. A number of ...
07.31.2022 Monique Daniels and Jhessye Shockley In this episode, we're discussing two different cases, the disappearances of Monique Daniels and Jhessye Shockley. Both are very similar cases but with very different outcomes. Monique Daniels, a 15-year-old from Moore, Oklahoma, disappeared in 1992. In 2011 5-year-old Jhessye ...
07.24.2022 Tamra Keepness The circumstances surrounding the 2004 disappearance of 5-year-old Tamra Keepness are extremely mysterious. Tamra disappeared from her home in Saskatchewan, Canada, while her three siblings and two half-siblings were in the house. The timing of events has been debated based ...
07.17.2022 Clark Perry Baldwin Clark Perry Baldwin is a man who has been linked to a number of murders in different states. In this episode, we are discussing a number of murders that are solved, but we have no idea who the victims are, ...
07.11.2022 Introducing: Who Killed Daphne? When a car bomb kills Daphne Caruana Galizia on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta, the hunt for her killers exposes secrets with consequences that go far beyond its shores. In the aftermath of her death, an international team of ...
07.10.2022 Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone On February 19th, 2005, 35-year-old Richard Petrone and 34-year-old Danielle Imbo went out on a casual night out on South Street in Philadelphia PA, and on the way back to Danielle’s home in Mt Laurel, NJ they vanished, and have ...
06.26.2022 The Pillowcase Rapist The Pillowcase Rapist was a moniker given to a man who committed over 40 violent assaults on the East coast of Florida from 1981 to 1986. This individual was extremely cunning and cautious and staked out apartments that were well ...
06.21.2022 Wondery Presents: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. ...
06.19.2022 Katie Janness In July 2021, 40-year-old Katie Janness was murdered in Atlanta's Piedmont Park. Her partner, Emma Clark, found Katie's body along with their dog Bowie just inside the park and called 911. The murder was extremely brutal and included mutilation which ...
06.12.2022 The Texas Fugitives Recently, people across the nation were taken with the story of escaped inmate Casey White and his accomplice, decorated corrections officer Vicky White. These types of escapee-on-the-run stories are often romanticized, the most famous being the story of Bonnie and ...
06.06.2022 Introducing Persona: The French Deception Introducing the true crime podcast Persona: The French Deception— the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time. What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? ...
06.05.2022 Brittanee Drexel 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, disappeared from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 2009. She remained missing for 13 years, until in May 2022, when her body was found. 62-year-old Raymond Moody led the police to Brittanee's body and confessed to her murder. ...
05.29.2022 Rebecca Coriam Rebecca Coriam, a crew member aboard the cruise ship, the Disney Wonder, vanished in 2011 and has never been found. 24-year-old Rebbeca or "Becks", as she was known to friends and family, disappeared on March 22nd, 2011. From the very ...
05.22.2022 Orsolya Gaal The body of wife and mother Orsolya Gaal was in April 2022 inside a rolling hockey bag in New York City. This case has received a lot of media attention due to video footage that showed a man rolling the ...
05.15.2022 The I65 Killer The I65 killer, sometimes referred to as the Days Inn Killer, was given those names because he targeted victims that worked at hotels along Interstate 65 in Indiana and Kentucky between 1987 and 1989. The cases took many years to ...
05.08.2022 Keith Mann In 1997, 20-year-old Keith Mann disappeared in Wichita Falls, Texas after being dropped off at his apartment by some friends. Keith was just really starting his life and things were going well. He was in love with a girl named ...
05.01.2022 Andrew Cunanan Andrew Cunanan was very intelligent. He knew how to manipulate people and used that to get what he wanted from everyone in his life. But, like many con artists, he was never satisfied. Andrew was always looking for the next ...
04.24.2022 Tara Calico In September 1988, 19-year-old Tara Calico disappeared from Belen, New Mexico. Police suspected foul play as did Tara's family. The authorities did find some witnesses who saw Tara riding her bike as well as a suspicious truck that they thought ...
04.17.2022 The Gitchie Manitou Murders In 1973, a group of 5 teenagers was attacked and four of them killed in Iowa in a case dubbed The Gitchie Manitou Murders. Gitchie Manitou State Preserve in Northwestern Iowa was a place where kids would go to hang ...
04.10.2022 Wendy Camp, Cynthia Britto, and Lisa Kreger In this episode, we are discussing the mysterious 1992 disappearance, of 3 people: 23-year-old Wendy Camp, her 6-year-old daughter Cynthia Britto, and Wendy’s 22-year-old sister-in-law Lisa Kreger. Their disappearance would eventually become a murder case. Join Mike and Morf as ...
04.03.2022 Andrew Gosden 14-year-old Andrew Gosden disappeared in England in 2007. He skipped school that day, nearly emptied his bank account, and bought a ticket on a train to London. His parents discovered he was gone later that day and contacted the police. ...
03.27.2022 Cleveland House of Horrors In 2013, three women were rescued from a house of horrors in Cleveland, Ohio. Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina DeJesus were rescued from a house where they had been held captive for years by a man named Aeriel Castro. ...
03.20.2022 The Death Valley Germans In 1996, four German tourists, two adults, and two children disappeared in California's Death Valley. Investigators found a rented minivan with three flat tires but no sign of anyone. The rented car was quickly traced to German tourist 34-year-old Egbert ...
03.13.2022 Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins In 2012, ten-year-old Lyric Cook and eight-year-old Elizabeth Collins disappeared while riding their bikes on their summer vacation. An extensive search began quickly to find the two missing girls. But, even though the authorities found some witnesses and CCTV footage ...
03.08.2022 Introducing: American Hostage In the series premiere, radio DJ Fred Heckman (Jon Hamm) receives an unexpected call from a listener that turns his life upside down. Follow American Hostage on Amazon Music, to hear all 8 episodes right now: http://wondery.fm/Criminology_Hostage Learn more about ...
03.06.2022 The Broken Arrow Murders On July 22nd, 2015, dispatchers in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma received a 911 call. The call itself is chilling and it led authorities to the murders of five members of the Bever family. The scene inside the Bever home was shocking. ...
02.27.2022 Amber Tuccaro In August 2010, 20-year-old Amber Tuccaro disappeared near Edmonton, Canada. Her remains were later found by horseback riders in a field on a farm in a very rural area of Leduc County. The RCMP released audio of a phone call ...
02.22.2022 Introducing: Twin Flames Two Youtubers promise their followers the secret of true love. But when some of their believers cross the line from love to obsession, the Youtubers are accused of running a cult. As they fight for their new way of life, ...
02.20.2022 Candice Rogers In 1959, Candice Rogers was abducted and murdered while selling Camp Fire Girls mints door to door. At the time, Candice was in the fourth grade and lived in Spokane, Washington. Her murder shocked the city and forever changed the ...
02.13.2022 Brandon Lawson 26-year-old Brandon Lawson disappeared from Texas in 2013. Brandon left home after a fight with his partner Ladessa to make a 4-hour drive to his dad's house to cool off. Along the way, Brandon ran out of gas and a ...
02.06.2022 Bonnie Haim Bonnie Haim disappeared in 1993 and her husband Michael was a suspect for many years. People in Bonnie's inner circle knew that the marriage was bad and that she was making plans to get out. When Bonnie disappeared, police suspected ...
01.30.2022 The Clouse Family Murders The bodies of Harold and Tina Clouse were found in Houston, Texas in January of 1981 but it took 41 years to identify them. A lot of hard work went into the identification of Harold and Tina. But, once that ...
01.23.2022 The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders In California, in the 1970s, a large number of women and girls were murdered while hitchhiking. The authorities struggled to solve the murders or even determine whether or not they were a series of murders committed by one or more ...
01.16.2022 Elizabeth Smart In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home near Salt Lake City, Utah. Elizabeth's younger sister was in the same room when a man came and took Elizabeth. Her captors kept her up in the mountains for much ...
01.09.2022 Keith Warren In 1986, 19-year-old Keith Warren was found hanging from a tree in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the police quickly ruled it a suicide. Keith's family didn't believe that he had taken his own life. They found the actions of the ...
12.19.2021 Latricia White and The Wackerhagens Just after Christmas in 1993, Latricia White was found murdered and her boyfriend Dub Wackerhagen and his son Chance went missing. Police encountered a very bloody scene including what appeared to be a footprint in blood they believed belonged to ...
12.12.2021 Kim Bryant In 1979, 16-year-old Kim Bryant was abducted and murdered on her way home from school in Las Vegas, Nevada. She called her boyfriend to come to pick her up, but when he arrived Kim was gone. Several factors delayed the ...
12.05.2021 Monique Figueroa Monique Figueroa's 2015 disappearance is shrouded in mystery. Her family has said that she battled drug addiction but was set to go to rehab. It also came out that Monique sold methamphetamine as well as using the drug. This put ...
11.28.2021 Christina Morris On August 29, 2014, the Friday before Labor Day, 23-year-old Christina Morris met up with some of her old friends from high school in Plano, Texas, for a night out. She never made it back to the residence that she ...
11.21.2021 Lori Erica Ruff Lori Erica Ruff was a secretive person. She was very private and didn't open to people about her past. In 2010, after she took her own life, secrets were revealed and the truth about her past began to unravel. But, ...
11.14.2021 Mary Ann Holmes In 1995, 29-year-old Mary Ann Holmes was murdered in her rented Thatcher, Arizona home. It was a very brutal murder that police believe was carried out in front of Mary's two young children. During their investigation, the police investigated a ...
11.07.2021 Larry Sarvey Larry Sarvey, the general manager of the Atchison Daily Globe newspaper was murdered in 1989. Larry was shot in the head twice with a 12-gauge shotgun inside his Kansas home. But, police had very little to go on besides some ...
10.31.2021 The Westfield Watcher In 2014, the Broaddus family encountered a nightmare after buying what they thought was their dream home in Westfield New Jersey. It was a home that they never even moved into. Shortly after buying the home, a mysterious letter appeared ...

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What's Criminology about?

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Criminology episodes:

Lynette Dawson

The Bodies In Lake Mead

The West Mesa Murders

The Boston Strangler

The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Davis

The Isdal Woman

Robert Hansen

The Lyon Sisters

Monique Daniels and Jhessye Shockley

Tamra Keepness

Clark Perry Baldwin

Introducing: Who Killed Daphne?

Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone

The Pillowcase Rapist

Wondery Presents: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley

Katie Janness

The Texas Fugitives

Introducing Persona: The French Deception

Brittanee Drexel

Rebecca Coriam

Orsolya Gaal

The I65 Killer

Keith Mann

Andrew Cunanan

Tara Calico

The Gitchie Manitou Murders

Wendy Camp, Cynthia Britto, and Lisa Kreger

Andrew Gosden

Cleveland House of Horrors

The Death Valley Germans

Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins

Introducing: American Hostage

The Broken Arrow Murders

Amber Tuccaro

Introducing: Twin Flames

Candice Rogers

Brandon Lawson

Bonnie Haim

The Clouse Family Murders

The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders

Elizabeth Smart

Keith Warren

Latricia White and The Wackerhagens

Kim Bryant

Monique Figueroa

Christina Morris

Lori Erica Ruff

Mary Ann Holmes

Larry Sarvey

The Westfield Watcher

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