A murderous geisha, a teenage serial killer, the Red Room Curse, and a quick (but haunting) ghost story.

We're here to discuss Japan Crime Desu, hosted by Christi and Tamoko.

If you missed our Preview of Japan Crime Desu, it's the episode before this one in your feed. Go check that out first. Preview episodes are released each Thursday. Full Recaps are released the following Tuesday.

When 22-year-old English student Lindsay Hawker was murdered in Japan by Tatsuya Ichihashi, it kicked off a multi-year search. This is a story that includes eluding capture by getting cosmetic surgery, some questionable policework, and one really terrible email address.

This is a Preview of Japan Crime Desu, hosted by Christi and Tamoko.

You can find Japan Crime Desu wherever you listen to podcasts, including at Spotify.

How does April Balascio, daughter of serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards, come to terms with her father's crimes? How does she challenge a conspiracy theorist who thinks he knows more about her father than she does? And how does she explore a shared tragic history with the families of her father's victims?

We're here to discuss The Clearing, hosted by Josh Dean.

You can find The Clearing wherever you listen to podcasts, including at ⁠Gimlet Media⁠.

When April Balascio was 40 years old, she called the police with a tip: She believed that her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, was a serial killer who escaped justice for decades.

This is a Preview of The Clearing, hosted by Josh Dean.

You can find The Clearing wherever you listen to podcasts, including at Gimlet Media.

Happy 2025! We are changing things up a little at the show for 2025. Please check out this short announcement for the details. Thank you!

In our final holiday special of the season, we our giving you a peak behind the scenes of one of our regular features available to our Patreon community: Extended Time Machine segments! Here, you can listen to longer trips back in time to the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s. More song lyric flat reads, more pop culture quizzes, more exploring the vast differences between Ireland and the United States.

If you love this, and are also interested in outtakes, extra discussion content, and more, please check out our Patreon. It's a great way to get more of us and support the show!

More time for crime?

In this special episode, we look back on 2024 - Our favorite hosts, the most challenging listens, our best interview guests, and much more. We also look ahead to 2025 - What are the trends in true crime and what do we want to do more (or less) of on this show?

Share your thoughts in the comments and/or on our social media. See you in 2025!

More time for crime?

What if we did a true crime podcast that wasn't at all about true crime? In this special episode, we challenged each other to listen to our favorite non-true crime podcasts. We discuss these, then also touch on other non-true crime recommendations.

Here are the full episodes we discuss:

We also discuss these shows:

More time for crime?

We're revisiting one of our most popular episodes: Our preview of The Thing About Pam from Dateline NBC. In this special re-release, we've added a brand new Time Machine segment that takes us back to 2011. Enjoy this holiday treat with newly-added content!

You can listen to The Thing About Pam on your favorite podcast app or the ⁠⁠Dateline NBC⁠⁠ site. To listen to our Full Recap of The Thing About Pam, it's episode 4 in our feed or find it here.

Next time, we're discussing our favorite podcasts that aren't true crime. If you want to listen ahead to what we'll discuss, it's the Spencer's Record, Oasis, and A Roman Burglar episode of My Therapist Ghosted Me and the Ali Macofsky episode of WTF with Marc Maron (#1573).

More time for crime?

A tragic Christmas story from Ireland: The murders of Sharon Whelan and her two young daughters, a criminal given a light sentence, and a family in mourning. We're here to recap The Whelan Family Story, which was the first season of Inside the Crime from Newstalk, hosted by Frank Greaney.

You can find The Whelan Family Story wherever you listen to podcasts, including at ⁠Newstalk⁠.