It's a Scary Life

In this two part series you'll hear the story behind the murder of DeeDee Blanchard, a mother with Munchaussen by proxy. In this episode we explore the abuse that led DeeDee's daughter Gypsy Rose to feel like her only way out of her mother's tight grip was murder.

Hear the story that rocked a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada where a young woman was haunted by a poltergeist. A proper haunting is gifted to Ellen with the story of Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery.

Apologies for the sound issues in this episode, We were in a different recording location and had some unexpected interference at times.

Do you remember checking your candy for tampering after going trick or treating? Have you ever wondered where justification of this came from? Hear the story of Ronald O'Bryan who in a scheme for money poisoned candy and tried to make it seem as though it was done by a depraved stranger. This is the murder that became an urban legend. The legendary murder of Timothy O'Bryan.

How far would you follow a doctor's treatment before you realize that they're going to kill you? In the case of many patients at Wilderness Heights in Olalla, Washington following a quack who believed in the cure of fasting for every ailment victims were only able to follow their doctor to the grave. Hear the story of Linda Hazzard, known as the Starvation Doctor, and her extreme treatments that don't sound unlike "cures" and "hacks" sold by the wellness industry today.

When an international student went missing and his body parts were found mailed to government buildings and in an alley all signs point to an attention seeking, disordered young man who posted a video of himself killing and defiling the body. Hear the story behind the video "1 lunatic, 1 ice pick" and how international student Jun Lin trusted the wrong person, Luka Magnotta.

Warning for animal cruelty, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

Did a voodoo practitioner actually curse her town and cause it's destruction? Or is it just a story of a woman who happened to predict her town's destruction? Hear the demystified story of Julia Brown of Louisiana and the hurricane that devastated her region.

Black Wall Street was an enviable neighborhood to white and black people alike. Match this envy with the superiority complex of white people in the Jim Crow era and racial tensions rising post-World War I and the refusal of the police to turn over a Black man to a massive lynch mob and you get the night the Greenwood District burned. Hear the story of the destruction of the wealthiest Black enclave in the nation in the early 20th century.

When one young man goes through life lonely and without a girlfriend, he feels it is justification for mass murder. Hear the story and inner philosophy of Elliot Rodger and what he felt caused him to commit the infamous 2014 Isla Vista Murders.

The story behind what caused two teenagers to commit double homicide and become Britain's youngest couple killers. Learn about what led to the murders of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards.

This week you hosts dive into the terrifying concept of what to do with your body when you die. What happens to bodies during the cremation and embalming? What other options are available to you?