Dead Bodies Podcast

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Dead Bodies Podcast episodes

December 21, 2020 Ep 107 - Cheeseman Park Bodies, Glenys Heyward
In 1858, Cheesman Park in Denver, Colorado, was a graveyard called Prospect Hill Cemetery. When it closed, and the moving of the bodies was left to an undertaker named E.P. McGovern things started to go terribly wrong.
Glenys Heyward disappeared from her home in Mt Gambier, Victoria, in July, 2007. Almost three years later her son, Matthew Reginald Wills Heyward, and and farmhand Jeremy Adam Minter were convicted of her murder.
37 min
December 14, 2020 Ep 106 - Hartford circus fire, mummified baby
July 6, 1944, as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was beginning its 2pm matinee performance, a fire started under the big top, killing 167 people and injuring more than 700. It was years before arsonist Robert Segee came forward to confess.
“Be careful. My uncle's a killer. He has a dead baby.” Those words from a young girl in New Hampshire sparked an investigation into the corpse of a baby that had been handed down through generations.
52 min
November 30, 2020 Ep 105 - Bottlebaby, and the mystery of Juan Pedro Gomez
The Case of Juan Pedro Martinez Gomez, Europe’s strangest disappearance.
Bassmah and Sabrina are back… with Bottlebaby!
And we hear from Susanne in Sweden, where they have fabulous accents and a Dead Bodies style song
40 min
November 23, 2020 Ep 104 - Anatoly Moskvyn returns, the Queen Street Massacre
December 8, 1987, in Melbourne, Australia, a gunman opened fire in the Queen Street offices of Australia Post offices. He killed eight people before throwing himself out of an 11th-floor window.
Anatoly Moskvyn is serving time in a Russian psychiatric facility, for stealing 29 girls' corpses and turning them into 'dolls’. Sharnelle has an update on his case.
41 min
November 16, 2020 Ep 103 - Dorothea Puente, and Kylie Maybury
Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California and murdered her elderly and mentally disabled boarders, leading to her being dubbed the "Death House Landlady".
Kylie Maybury went missing from her neighborhood in Preston in 1984. More than 30 years after her death, police arrested and charged Gregory Keith Davies.
51 min
November 08, 2020 Ep 102 - Herman Rockefeller and the Strathfield Massacre
Melbourne millionaire Herman Rockefeller’s disappearance mystified police, until they untangled his complex life that involved a secret mistress and an underground ''swingers'' network.
Wade Frankum went on a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Strathfield, Sydney, on 17 August 1991. He killed himself, after leaving eight dead and six wounded.
1 hr 6 min
November 02, 2020 Ep 101 - John Conn and Buddy Musso
John Conn was found guilty of the murder of Aveline Littler and sentenced to hang at Bathurst jail in 1872. The headlines read: “Frightful Scene” after an incident occurred in his final moments.
Louis "Buddy" Musso was a 59 year old mentally handicapped man from New Jersey, USA who was horribly murdered by three men and three women in Houston, Texas.
1 hr
August 03, 2020 Ep 100 - Evelyn Dick, and the Footscray Axe Murder
When children found the torso of a missing man - John Dick - in Hamilton, Ontario, they quickly focussed on his estranged wife Evelyn Dick. What they didn’t expect was to find another dead body in the attic of the home she shared with her mother.
The axe murder of a woman and her infant grandson in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray in 1944 was a little close to home for one of our podcast community.
35 min
July 27, 2020 Ep 99 - Photographing the Dead, and The Sausage King
Several incidents where emergency workers have taken photos of corpses and shared them online - causing distress to grieving families - we discuss whether there should be a wholesale ban anyone taking pictures of dead bodies.
Adolph Luetgert was known as The Sausage King in Chicago, Illinois. When his second wife Louisa Bicknese disappeared in 1897 police knew where to start looking for her …
40 min
July 20, 2020 Ep 98 - Peter Kurten and Tik Tok Bodies
A group of teenagers using the app Randonautica in Seattle found a suitcase containing human remains and posted the video on TikTok.
Peter Kürten was a German serial killer who committed a series of murders and sexual assaults between February and November 1929 in the city of Düsseldorf. He became known as "The Vampire of Düsseldorf".
39 min