The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

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Ordinary people who do unthinkable things...The Minds of Madness is a True Crime Podcast that examines the most disturbing criminal minds and the impact violent crimes have on survivors of homicide.

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Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

01.24.2023

Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because ...

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01.24.2023 Wondery Presents: Frozen Head Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because ...
01.16.2023 Episode 147 - The Disappearance of Brittany Tavar It was a date Brittany Tavar had been preparing for, for over a year, July 7th, 2010. The day she planned to stand before a judge at the St. Augustine, Florida courthouse, to present evidence that would hopefully grant her ...
01.11.2023 Episode 146 - Special Announcement! & Something From The Vault Please join us for a 2022 recap, some teasers of what 2023 will bring, an exciting special announcement, and something fun from the vault! How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, and ad-free episodes - Go ...
01.09.2023 Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of ...
12.19.2022 Episode 145 - The Nashville Bombing Join us as we take a look at a terrifying event that shook the downtown core of Nashville Tennessee. You’ll hear how what was supposed to be a peaceful and joyful day was interrupted by one of the most bizarre ...
12.05.2022 Episode 144 - Murder At The St. Regis - The Death of Sheila Mack On August 12th, 2014 at a luxurious resort in Bali, Heather Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Shaefer loaded a suitcase into the back of a waiting taxi. They told the driver they’d be back shortly. They just needed to finish ...
11.21.2022 Episode 143 - The Disappearance of Jacob Millison If you’ve ever watched shows like Yellowstone - you know that sometimes out west on a Ranch, there are secrets: secrets never supposed to leave the corral. This was something a ranch hand would discover firsthand, in Gunnison, Colorado in ...
11.07.2022 Episode 142 - 7 Minutes Monday, April 23rd, 2018 was a surprisingly warm day in Toronto, Ontario, causing residents to be out in droves, ditching their winter coats, eager to enjoy the sunshine. Among those taking advantage of the warmer weather, was 68 year old ...
11.01.2022 Introducing: The Vanished The Vanished is a true crime podcast that explores the stories of those who have gone missing. The Vanished goes beyond conventional news reports to take a deep dive into the story of a different missing person each week. Host ...
10.23.2022 Episode 141 - Ironclad Alibi On the night of December 3rd, 1997 Frank Dosso was supposed to be home from work by 5:30 pm, just in time to celebrate his twin daughters’ 10th birthday. But when he never showed up, his family drove out to ...
10.09.2022 Episode 140 - Abduction At Big Sky In the early 1980s, many of the staff at Lone Mountain Ranch in Big Sky Montana were like a close-knit family, both working and living together on the property. Not only did the Lone Mountain actually function as a working ...
10.03.2022 The ReWatcher: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Welcome to the Hellmouth Weirdos! Your favorite Morbid hosts Ash and Alaina are branching out from true crime and heading to Sunnydale for the ultimate Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch podcast! Alaina is a Buffy superfan and Ash has never ...
09.25.2022 Episode 139 - Urge To Kill Join us, as we take a look at the case of the Frankston Serial Killer. You’ll hear how three young women became victims of a remorseless murderer who chose his victims at random, striking whenever he felt the urge to ...
09.11.2022 Episode 138 - Partners In Crime What if I told you that the boogeyman was real? That there really was a dark figure running around out there waiting to strike, where exactly, nobody knows. Maybe hiding out in the woods, the toolshed, or somewhere even closer....like ...
08.29.2022 Wondery Presents: Blood Ties S3: Strange Days Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore Richland exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother, Santino Reyes, to help her do it. But old habits ...
08.27.2022 Episode 137 - The Brass Ring In 1989, Collier Landry was 11 years old, living with his parents in Mansfield, Ohio. His father was a highly respected physician, his mother Noreen Boyle was a full-time caregiver, raising and doting on her son and his adopted sister ...
08.14.2022 Episode 136 - Plenty Of Catfish A Scottish mother and daughter uncovered a horrifying conspiracy within the pharmaceutical industry A drug company literally being paid to kill the participants in a clinical stem cell trial and the government was in on the cover-up. But because of ...
07.31.2022 Episode 135 - Framed: The Story Of Russ Faria - Part 2/2 Join us for the conclusion of our 2-part series on the false conviction of Russ Faria. You’ll learn how Pam Hupp’s greed eventually opened the door for the justice system to right a wrong that should’ve never happened in the ...
07.17.2022 Episode 134 - Framed: The Story Of Russ Faria - Part 1/2 We take a look into a case with so many twists and turns, that it’s made its way into a dramatized series “The thing about Pam” starring Rene Zellweger. However, in this version of events, Pam Hupp takes a backseat ...
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 ...
07.03.2022 Episode 133 - Blue Moon Murders On August 4th, 2015 in Pensacola, Florida. Escambia County Sheriff, David Morgan delivered a disturbing press conference, giving insight into a recent triple homicide that had taken place inside a quiet suburban home. The grizzly crime scene he described and ...
06.20.2022 Introducing - 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 Episode 132 - The Birdhouse It was undeniable, that Eudy Simelane was born to play soccer. From an early age, she gravitated to the sport and by the time she was an adult, was being recognized as one of South Africa's star players. But while ...
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 Episode 131 - Stranger Than Fiction “Who are you and what have you done with my wife?” It's the kind of rhetorical question asked in jest, expressing pleasant surprise when someone has a change in behavior or attitude. But what if this wasn’t a rhetorical question? ...
05.22.2022 Episode 130 - Hiding In Plain Sight Watch enough crime shows and it doesn’t take long to figure out the steps a killer will take to get away with murder. They stage the crime scene, they ditch the murder weapon, they fabricate an alibi, and at all ...
05.08.2022 Episode 129 - Redhead Murders In the mid-1980s, numerous bodies were discovered along the highways of the American South over the course of several years. They were all women. They all had red hair. And all of them had been murdered. This is a unique ...
04.24.2022 Episode 128 - The Black Widow The courtyard of an elementary school is probably the last place on earth you'd expect someone to attempt hiring a hitman. Not for a mom in Southern Australia in 2001. How to connect: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter How to support: ...
04.10.2022 Episode 127 - Lundy Family Murders On the morning of August 30th, 2000 - Mark Lundy left a series of messages on his wife’s phone, sounding increasingly irritated that she hadn’t called him back. When he finally did receive a callback, it wasn’t from his wife, ...
03.27.2022 Episode 126 - Disappearing Act 40-year-old mother Carole Packman had been living in a toxic household - with a husband who physically abused her, and was openly having an affair with another woman he’d invited to live with them. Carole had the means, motive, and ...
03.13.2022 Episode 125 - Gorgeous Grey-Haired Widower In June 2011, UK author Helen Bailey began writing a blog after the death of her husband as a way to deal with her grief and to provide comfort and a voice to the bereaved. She openly chronicled her journey ...
02.28.2022 Episode 124 - Deadly Path To Enlightenment Charlotte and Brent Springford Sr. were well-respected, successful, progressive-minded pillars of their community in Montgomery, Alabama. Everything in their lives seemed perfect, but that was all about to change. How to support: For extra perks including extra content, early release, ...
02.14.2022 Episode 123 - Operation Tangled Web Valentine’s Day 2010 was supposed to be the perfect day for Richard and Stacey Schoeck to re-stoke old fires of desire. Like many couples, work, kids, and other commitments had meant little time for passion. But they were about to ...
01.30.2022 Episode 122 - Last Family Vacation Jo Rogers and her two daughters disappeared after taking their first vacation together.. Tragically it would be their last. Their bodies were later discovered floating in Tampa Bay with all signs horrifically pointing to the probability they’d been thrown overboard ...
01.24.2022 Episode 121 - Part 2/2 - Alive But Still Not Free After Nicole Addimando fatally shot her partner in what she claimed was self-defense, she was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. At her trial the details surrounding her history of abuse were excluded, essentially removing the context for what happened ...
01.17.2022 Episode 120 - Part 1/2 - Alive But Still Not Free To many residents in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, Nicole Addimando and Christopher Grover appeared to be an ideal couple raising two young children. So how did Chris wind up dead, and Nikki behind bars? When the truth behind ...
01.03.2022 Episode 119 - Two Worlds Apart Imagine TLC's 90 Day Fiancé meets the hit series Breaking Bad in an all-new twisted case of online romance. In 2006, an unlikely couple living two worlds apart found love over the internet and ventured into a marriage together that ...
12.20.2021 Episode 118 - Last Christmas December 24th, 2007 would mark the fifth year, three generations of the Anderson family living in Carnation, Washington would spend Christmas together. They had no idea a murderous pair sharing paranoid delusions made plans for it to be their last, ...
12.06.2021 Episode 117 - The Unsuspecting Tourists One of the best things about traveling is getting to meet new and interesting people along the way. But just how much do you really know about the guy sitting two rows behind you on the plane… or the person ...
11.22.2021 Episode 116 - Sarah Everard In March 2021, London along with the rest of England was under a full national lockdown in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. An unusual mix of boredom, fear, and frustration permeated the country as it grappled with the ever-changing ...
11.08.2021 Episode 115 - Til Death Do Us Part Ben and Narcy Novak's marriage was held together by mutually-assured destruction. He had all the money. She had all the dirt. Ben Jr. Novack had it all - wealth, influence, and a thriving convention business that made him millions each ...
10.24.2021 Episode 114 - Kathleen McGehee Halloween is without a doubt considered the spookiest time of year. It’s the time of year when we binge watch all of the horror classics, sure to induce a good jump scare - like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A ...
10.11.2021 Introducing - Over My Dead Body: Season 3 – Fox Lake A small town cop known as “GI Joe” is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015 and quickly becomes a martyr in the national media. But when a dogged investigator and his team set out to get ...
10.10.2021 Episode 113 - The Hustler Whether or not you're into mafia films like The Godfather or Goodfellas, you're guaranteed to love this episode - a story filled with all the makings of a Hollywood movie: comedy, romance, schemes, scams, sketchy characters, violence...and the occasional murder. ...
09.26.2021 Episode 112 - America's Most Evil Mother In the Summer of 2004, in the quiet, soggy coastal town of Raymond Washington, a man lifted a body out of his family’s chest freezer. He struggled beneath its weight and couldn’t understand how his wife had managed to get ...
09.22.2021 Introducing - Badlands: Sportsland BADLANDS is a true-crime anthology podcast from Jake Brennan, creator and host of the award-winning music and true crime podcast DISGRACELAND. BADLANDS Season 2:Sportsland is all about the shocking rise and fall of sports legends. Listen each week for wild ...
09.12.2021 Episode 111 - The Gainesville Murders August 1990 - It was the beginning of a new academic year for University of Florida students. Thousands of young people, brimming with anticipation. Excited for new beginnings, classes, friends, and of course, football games. But that summer there was ...
08.31.2021 Introducing - Suspect A big Halloween party at an apartment complex in Redmond, Washington. Themed rooms and costumed partygoers. But by the end of the party, one of the hosts is dead. The police look to the partiers as the prime suspects: was ...
08.29.2021 Episode 110 - J.P. & The Hawks Imagine sitting on the back deck of a yacht, soaking up Pacific sunshine off the coast of Mexico with a cold Margarita in one hand, and the love of your life in the other. No more work - just the ...
08.16.2021 Introducing - Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man Paolo is a smart and handsome surgeon, renowned for his ability to perform surgeries that transform his patients’ lives. When television producer Benita covers him for a story, he’ll transform her life too, but not in the ways she expects. ...

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