Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock! On October 9th, 2020, Reagan was 21 years old and about eight months pregnant when she was killed in her home in New Boston, Texas. The woman who did it had spent months faking a pregnancy of her own. Her name was Taylor Parker. Tonight we'll go through who Reagan was, the deception that led Taylor to her door, the investigation, and the 2022 trial.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Steven Pladl! In 1998, Steven and his wife put their infant daughter up for adoption, and a family in New York raised her as Katie Fusco. Eighteen years later, after she turned 18, Katie reached out to her biological parents and moved in with them. Within months Steven left his wife, and what developed between him and Katie is the reason this case exists. They married in 2017, lying on the paperwork about being related. They had a son. They were arrested for incest in early 2018 once it all came to light. Tonight we get into how it happened, the abuse in Steven's past, and the bond decision that left him on the street.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, a downed US F-15 pilot, rescued after being shot down over Iran back in April, told intelligence officials he saw something strange before he ejected: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish. Then, a Cornell paper that figured out why AI chatbots, when asked to write a story, keep inventing the same character. His name is Elias Thorne, he's almost always a lighthouse keeper, and he shows up in two-thirds of all the stories these things generate. We'll get into where this tupla-like entity came from and why the machines can't stop summoning him.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we close out our series on Gary Ridgway! Tonight we'll get into the science caught up to Gary, and the plea deal that spared his life. Then the sentencing in December 2003, where the families finally got to stand up and look him in the face. And finally, where Gary is today, and case still being closed into the 2020's.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on Gary Ridgway! We start with the day a desperate task force flew down to Florida and sat across from Ted Bundy, who told them how a killer like this thinks, because he was one. Then the 1987 search that got them a sample they couldn't use yet. The task force shrinking down to one detective working it alone. And Gary just settling into a quiet third marriage while the whole thing went dormant.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Back in December we covered the disappearance of Gretchen Fleming, last seen leaving the My Way Lounge in the early morning hours of December 4th, 2022, with the case stuck cold and a former cop named Preston Pierce as the named person of interest. Tonight we've got the updates. Human remains turned up in Wirt County, West Virginia in September 2025, and genetic testing confirmed they were Gretchen's. That ID opened the door, and we'll go over all the updates.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our series on Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer! We covered this one back in 2019, came in under an hour, so we're doing it right this time.

We start at the beginning, with Gary's childhood outside Seattle, the early warning signs, his time in Vietnam, and the religion he carried around right next to what he was actually doing. Then the killings, starting with the bodies that surfaced in the Green River in the summer of 1982. How he worked the strip along Pacific Highway South. The one woman who got into his truck and lived. And a task force that had Gary, by name, more than once, and let him drive off every time.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Or at least that's what we told Mike. What we actually have for him tonight is a full Gypsy Rose Blanchard Extravaganza! First, Gypsy's ex Ryan Anderson is clapping back after she called him a clout leech. Then, Gypsy's new bikini photos and the latest round of headlines about her post-prison weight loss. After that, her take on Mackenzie Shirilla, saying remorse hasn't hit her yet but when it does it'll hit her like a train, why she doesn't see Shirilla getting parole, and her thoughts on Mackenzie's hookups behind bars. And finally, Gypsy's new TikTok outfit-of-the-day videos.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Fritz Haarmann, the Butcher of Hanover! In the chaos of post-war Germany, Haarmann worked the central train station as "Detective Haarmann," offering runaway boys a meal, a job, or a place to sleep. Between 1918 and 1924, he murdered at least 24 young men in his apartment and sold cheap black-market meat to the neighborhood. We'll get into how a man with fifteen prior convictions was left to patrol a station full of vulnerable kids, the accomplice who picked victims for their clothing, and the discovery that finally cracked it open!

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Robert Smalls, the enslaved man who stole a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom. On May 13th, 1862, while the three white officers of the CSS Planter were ashore for the night, Smalls put on the captain's hat, fired up the engines, picked up his wife and children, and navigated past five Confederate checkpoints in the dark giving the correct signals at every one. We'll walk through how he pulled it off, what he did after, and why a man born into slavery ended up serving five terms in the United States Congress.

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